Pulmonology

1. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

3. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

4. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

5. Drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia is caused by all except:

6. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

8. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

9. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

10. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

13. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

14. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

16. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

17. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

18. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

19. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

20. alpha-fetoprotein concentration in blood is raised in all except:

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

22. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

24. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

25. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

28. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

29. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

31. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

32. Which of the following is not associated with interstitial lung disease?

33. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

34. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

35. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

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

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

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

40. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

42. Stridor is characteristically found in:

43. Viral pneumonia may have:

44. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

45. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

46. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

48. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

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

50. Brassy cough is seen in: