Pulmonology

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

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

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

4. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

5. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

6. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

7. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

8. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

9. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

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

12. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

13. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

14. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

17. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

18. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

19. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

20. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

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

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

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

25. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

27. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

28. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

30. Viral pneumonia may have:

31. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

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

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

34. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

35. Which is not a part of ‘Kartagener’s syndrome’?

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

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

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

39. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

40. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

42. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

43. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

44. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

45. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

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

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

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

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