Pulmonology

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

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

3. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

4. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

5. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

8. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

10. In chronic bronchitis, the Reid index should be:

11. Brassy cough is seen in:

12. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

13. Which of the following is not a recognised feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

14. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

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

17. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

18. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

19. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

20. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

21. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

23. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

24. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

25. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

26. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

27. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

28. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

29. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

31. Bradypnoea is associated with:

32. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

35. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

36. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

38. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

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

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

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

43. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

44. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

45. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

47. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

50. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from: