Pulmonology

1. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

3. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

5. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

6. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

7. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

8. All of the following are restrictive lung diseases except:

9. Which is false regarding emphysema?

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

11. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

12. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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

14. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

15. Which of the following is false regarding indications of hospitalization in pneumonia?

16. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

18. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

19. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

20. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

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

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

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

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

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

26. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

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

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

29. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

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

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

33. Emphysema is associated with all except:

34. Clubbing is present in all except:

35. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

36. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

38. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

40. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

45. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

46. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

48. Hypercarbia is associated with:

49. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

50. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except: