Pulmonology

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

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

3. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

4. Bradypnoea is associated with:

5. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

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

7. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

8. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

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

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

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

12. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

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

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

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

16. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

17. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

18. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

20. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

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

23. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

25. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

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

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

28. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

29. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

31. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

32. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

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

35. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

37. Broncholithiasis is usually a late complication of some infections; which does not fall in this group?

38. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

39. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

40. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

41. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

42. In chronic bronchitis, the Reid index should be:

43. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

45. Which of the following is not on the list of bedside severity assessments of bronchial asthma?

46. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

48. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

50. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in: