Pulmonology

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

2. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

4. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

5. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

6. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

7. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

8. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

9. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

10. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

11. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

13. Viral pneumonia may have:

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

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

16. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

17. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

18. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

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

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

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

22. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

23. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

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

26. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

27. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

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

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

30. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

32. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

34. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

35. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

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

38. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

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

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

41. Clubbing is present in all except:

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

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

44. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

45. Nocturnal cough is classically found in all except:

46. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

47. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

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

49. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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