Pulmonology

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

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

3. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

5. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

6. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

7. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

8. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

9. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

12. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

13. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

14. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

15. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

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

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

20. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

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

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

25. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

26. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

27. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

28. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

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

31. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except:

32. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

34. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

35. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

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

38. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

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

40. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

41. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

42. Clubbing is present in all except:

43. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

44. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

46. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

47. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

48. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

50. Malt worker’s lung is caused by: