Pulmonology

1. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

2. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

4. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

5. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

6. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

8. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

9. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

10. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

11. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

13. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

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

15. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

16. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

17. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

18. Loss of Traube’s space tympanicity is found in all except:

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

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

21. Bradypnoea is associated with:

22. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

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

24. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

26. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

28. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

29. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

30. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

31. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

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

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

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

36. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

37. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

38. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

39. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

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

41. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

42. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

43. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

44. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

45. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

46. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

48. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

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