Pulmonology

1. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

2. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

3. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

4. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

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

6. The dose of which antituberculous drug need not be reduced in severe renal failure?

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

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

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

10. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

12. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

13. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

14. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

15. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

16. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

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

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

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

20. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

21. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

23. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

24. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

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

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

27. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

28. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

29. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

30. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

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

33. Which is the commonest complication of hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

34. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

36. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

37. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

38. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

39. Hypercarbia is associated with:

40. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

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

43. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

44. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

45. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

46. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

47. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

49. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

50. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of: