Pulmonology

1. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

2. Viral pneumonia may have:

3. Which of the following does not belong to the triad of symptomatic bronchial asthma?

4. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

6. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

18. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

20. Brassy cough is seen in:

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

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

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

24. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

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

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

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

28. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

29. Which of the following is not associated with interstitial lung disease?

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

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

32. Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis may be associated with all except:

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

34. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

35. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

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

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

38. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

39. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

40. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

41. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

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

43. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

44. Which of the following is correct in type II respiratory failure?

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

46. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

47. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

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

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