Pulmonology

1. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

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

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

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

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

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

7. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

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

10. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

12. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

13. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

14. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

16. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

17. The most common organism causing pneumonia during mechanical ventilation in the first 4 days of hospitalization is:

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

19. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

20. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

21. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

22. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

24. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

25. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

26. Stridor is characteristically found in:

27. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

28. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

29. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

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

31. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

32. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

33. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

34. A patient with hemoptysis and having a depressed bridge of the nose points towards:

35. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

36. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

37. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

39. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

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

42. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

43. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

45. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

47. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

48. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

49. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

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