Pulmonology

1. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

2. Which of the following drugs is not used in acute asthma?

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

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

5. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

6. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

7. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

17. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

18. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

19. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

21. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

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

23. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

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

25. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

26. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

27. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

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

29. All are features of hypercapnia except:

30. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

31. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

33. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

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

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

37. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

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

40. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

41. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

42. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

43. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

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

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

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

48. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

49. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

50. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is: