Pulmonology

1. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

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

4. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

7. All of the following are complicated by cyanosis except:

8. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

10. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

11. A large number of eosinophils in the sputum is diagnostic of:

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

13. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

15. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

16. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

17. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

18. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

19. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

20. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

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

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

23. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

25. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

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

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

29. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

30. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

31. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

33. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

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

36. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

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

39. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

41. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

42. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

43. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

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

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

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

47. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

48. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

49. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

50. Clubbing occurs earliest with: