Pulmonology

1. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

2. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

3. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

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

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

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

7. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

8. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

9. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

10. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

11. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

12. The upper border of liver dullness is elevated in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

20. Which of the following drugs may produce pleural effusion?

21. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

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

23. Asbestosis is not related to:

24. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

25. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

26. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

28. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

30. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

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

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

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

35. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

37. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

38. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

39. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

40. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

41. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

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

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

45. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

46. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

47. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

49. Clubbing is present in all except:

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