Pulmonology

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

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

3. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

4. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

7. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

8. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

10. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

11. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

12. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

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

14. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

17. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

18. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

19. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

20. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

21. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

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

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

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

25. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

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

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

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

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

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

32. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

33. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

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

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

37. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

38. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

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

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

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

43. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

44. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

47. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

48. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

49. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

50. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is: