Pulmonology

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

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

3. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

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

6. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

7. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

9. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

11. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

12. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

14. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

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

17. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

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

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

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

22. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

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

25. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

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

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

28. Viral pneumonia may have:

29. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

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

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

32. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

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

35. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

36. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

37. Hypercarbia is associated with:

38. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

40. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

41. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

42. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

43. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

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

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

47. Stridor is characteristically found in:

48. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

50. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is: