Pulmonology

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

2. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

3. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

5. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

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

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

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

10. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

11. Stridor is not a manifestation of:

12. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

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

14. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

15. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

16. In lobar pneumonia, which of the following is true in arterial blood?

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

18. Which of the following is false in restrictive lung disease?

19. Asbestosis is not related to:

20. Viral pneumonia may have:

21. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

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

23. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

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

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

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

28. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

30. Low voltage in ECG is seen in:

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

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

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

34. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

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

36. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

38. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

39. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

40. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

41. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

42. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

43. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

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

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

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

48. Which one of the following is not a paraneoplastic syndrome in bronchogenic carcinoma?

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

50. Hypercarbia is associated with: