Pulmonology

1. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

2. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

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

4. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

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

6. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

7. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

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

11. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

12. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

13. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

14. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

16. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

18. Asbestosis is not related to:

19. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

20. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

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

23. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

24. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

25. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

27. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

28. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

30. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

31. Hypercarbia is associated with:

32. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

34. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

35. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

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

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

39. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

42. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

43. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

44. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

45. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

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

47. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

48. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

49. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

50. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except: