Pulmonology

1. Which of the following is not on the list of bedside severity assessments of bronchial asthma?

2. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

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

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

5. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

6. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

7. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

9. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

10. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

12. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

13. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

14. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

17. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

18. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

19. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

20. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

21. Which of the following is not associated with interstitial lung disease?

22. Viral pneumonia may have:

23. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

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

25. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

26. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

28. Which of the following does not belong to the triad of symptomatic bronchial asthma?

29. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

30. In performing a chest X-ray (PA view), the tube-film distance should be:

31. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

32. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

33. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

34. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

35. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

36. Clubbing is present in all except:

37. Hypercarbia is associated with:

38. Asbestosis is not related to:

39. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

40. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

41. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

42. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

43. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

44. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

45. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

47. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

48. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

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