Pulmonology

1. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

2. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

3. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

4. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

5. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

6. A large number of eosinophils in the sputum is diagnostic of:

7. alpha-fetoprotein concentration in blood is raised in all except:

8. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

9. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

10. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

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

13. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

15. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except:

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

17. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

19. Which of the following is false regarding Pickwickian syndrome?

20. Laennec’s pearls and Curschmann’s spirals in sputum are characteristically seen in:

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

22. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

23. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

24. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

25. Hypercarbia is associated with:

26. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

27. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

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

30. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

31. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

32. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

33. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

34. Broncholithiasis is usually a late complication of some infections; which does not fall in this group?

35. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

37. Acute pulmonary oedema may develop after consumption of all except:

38. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

39. The lower part of right border of cardiac silhouette in a chest X-ray (PA view) is usually formed by:

40. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

41. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

42. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

43. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

44. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

45. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

46. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

48. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

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

50. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is: