Pulmonology

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

2. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

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

4. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

5. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

7. All of the following may aggravate bronchial asthma except:

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

9. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

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

12. Which is false regarding emphysema?

13. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

14. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

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

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

18. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

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

21. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

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

23. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

25. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

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

27. Brassy cough is seen in:

28. In pleural effusion, impaired transport of glucose into the pleural space is found in:

29. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

31. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

34. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

36. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

37. Diminished glucose in pleural fluid is seen in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

43. Which of the following can be used as Bosentan (endothelin antagonist) analogue in pulmonary hypertension?

44. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

45. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?

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

47. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

48. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

50. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies