Pulmonology

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

2. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

3. This is true in a predominant “blue bloater”?

4. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

5. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

7. Hypercarbia is associated with:

8. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

10. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

11. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

12. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

13. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

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

17. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

19. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

20. Investigation of the highest diagnostic efficacy in acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

21. Stridor is characteristically found in:

22. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

31. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

32. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

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

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

36. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

38. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

39. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

40. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

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

43. Which one of the following is false in silicosis?

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

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

46. Which is false regarding emphysema?

47. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

50. Brassy cough is seen in: