Pulmonology

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

2. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

4. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

5. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

7. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

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

11. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

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

15. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

17. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

18. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

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

21. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

22. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

23. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

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

25. Emphysema is associated with all except:

26. Acute lung injury (ARDS) should be differentiated from:

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

28. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

29. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

31. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

33. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

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

36. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

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

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

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

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

42. Hypercarbia is associated with:

43. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

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

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

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

47. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

48. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

49. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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