Pulmonology

1. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

4. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

5. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

6. Clubbing is present in all except:

7. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

8. Which of the following is false regarding primary pulmonary hypertension?

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

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

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

12. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

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

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

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

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

18. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

19. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

21. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

22. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

23. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

24. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

25. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

26. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

27. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

28. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

30. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

32. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

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

35. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

37. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

39. Which is false regarding emphysema?

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

41. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

42. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

43. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

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

46. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

47. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

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

50. Calcification of pleura is not seen in: