Pulmonology

1. Which is false regarding emphysema?

2. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

3. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

4. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

5. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

6. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

7. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

9. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

10. Stridor is characteristically found in:

11. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

12. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

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

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

16. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

17. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

18. Decreased vital capacity and decreased lung volume are common in:

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

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

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

22. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30. Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage may be an immune reaction to all undermentioned drugs except:

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

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

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

34. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

37. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

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

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

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

42. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

43. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

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

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

47. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

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

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

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