Pulmonology

1. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

2. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

3. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

5. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

8. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

9. All of the following drugs may produce fibrosing alveolitis except:

10. Which is false regarding emphysema?

11. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

12. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

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

15. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

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

19. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

20. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

21. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

22. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

24. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

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

26. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

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

28. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

29. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

30. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

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

33. Viral pneumonia may have:

34. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

35. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

37. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

39. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

41. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

42. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

43. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

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

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

47. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

48. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

50. Emphysema is associated with all except: