Pulmonology

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

2. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

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

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

5. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

6. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

7. Elastic recoil of the lung is severely diminished in:

8. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

9. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

10. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

11. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

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

14. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

15. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

17. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

18. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

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

21. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

23. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

25. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

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

27. All of the following drugs may produce fibrosing alveolitis except:

28. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

30. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

32. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

33. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

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

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

37. Clubbing is present in all except:

38. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

39. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

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

41. Hypercarbia is associated with:

42. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

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

45. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

47. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

48. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

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