Pulmonology

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

2. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

5. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

7. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

8. Which is the commonest complication of hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

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

10. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

11. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

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

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

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

15. Which is false regarding emphysema?

16. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

17. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

19. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

21. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

22. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

24. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except

25. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

26. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

27. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

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

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

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

32. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

34. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

36. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

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

38. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

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

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

42. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

44. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

45. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

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

48. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

49. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

50. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except: