Pulmonology

1. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

2. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

3. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

4. Investigation of the highest diagnostic efficacy in acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

5. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

6. Clubbing is present in all except:

7. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

8. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

9. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

10. The dose of which antituberculous drug need not be reduced in severe renal failure?

11. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

12. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

13. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

14. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

15. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

16. Which of the following is false in restrictive lung disease?

17. This is true in a predominant “blue bloater”?

18. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

19. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

20. Hypercarbia is associated with:

21. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

22. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

23. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

24. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

25. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

26. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

27. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

28. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

29. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in:

30. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

31. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

32. The drug of choice in high-altitude pulmonary oedema is:

33. Chest X-ray shows miliary mottling in all except:

34. Drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia is caused by all except:

35. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

36. Which is the commonest complication of hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

37. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

38. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

39. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

40. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

41. Stridor is characteristically found in:

42. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

43. Silo-filler’s disease is the inhalation of:

44. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

45. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

46. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

47. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

48. All are features of hypercapnia except:

49. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

50. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of: