Pulmonology

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

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

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

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

5. Stridor is characteristically found in:

6. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

7. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

8. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

9. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

10. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

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

13. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

14. Brassy cough is seen in:

15. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

17. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

19. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

20. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

21. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

22. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

23. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

25. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

27. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

28. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

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

30. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

32. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

33. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

35. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

36. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

37. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

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

40. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

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

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

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

44. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

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

47. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

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

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