Pulmonology

1. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

3. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

4. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

5. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

7. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

8. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

9. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

12. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

13. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

14. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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

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

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

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

20. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

21. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

23. Hypercarbia is associated with:

24. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

25. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

26. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

27. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

28. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

29. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

30. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

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

33. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

34. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

35. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

36. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

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

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

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

41. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

42. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

43. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

45. Silo-filler’s disease is the inhalation of:

46. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

48. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

49. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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