Pulmonology

1. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

2. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

5. Stridor is characteristically found in:

6. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

8. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

9. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

10. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

11. Which is false regarding emphysema?

12. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

13. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

14. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

15. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

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

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

19. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

20. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

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

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

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

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

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

27. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

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

30. Which of the following is not on the list of bedside severity assessments of bronchial asthma?

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

32. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

33. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

34. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

36. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

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

39. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

40. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

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

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

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

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

46. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

47. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

49. All of the following are allergic reactions to tuberculosis except:

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