Pulmonology

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

2. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

3. alpha-fetoprotein concentration in blood is raised in all except:

4. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

6. The most common organism causing pneumonia during mechanical ventilation in the first 4 days of hospitalization is:

7. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

8. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

10. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

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

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

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

14. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

16. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

17. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

18. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

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

20. All of the following are allergic reactions to tuberculosis except:

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

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

23. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

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

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

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

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

28. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

30. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

31. Hypercarbia is associated with:

32. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

33. Predominantly left-sided pleural effusion is seen in:

34. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

35. Viral pneumonia may have:

36. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

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

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

39. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

40. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

41. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

43. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

44. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

46. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

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

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