Pulmonology

1. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

3. Clubbing is present in all except:

4. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

6. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

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

9. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

10. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

12. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

13. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

14. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

15. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

16. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

18. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

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

21. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

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

24. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

25. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

26. Which of the following is not a bedside feature of fibrosing alveolitis?

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

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

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

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

31. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

32. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

33. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

39. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

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

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

42. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

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

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

46. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

47. Viral pneumonia may have:

48. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

49. Haemoptysis following acute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea is characteristic of:

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