Pulmonology

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

2. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

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

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

5. All are features of hypercapnia except:

6. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

8. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

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

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

11. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

12. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

13. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

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

15. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

16. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

18. Which is false regarding emphysema?

19. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is indicated in all except:

20. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

22. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

23. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

25. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

26. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

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

29. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

31. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

32. In allergic asthma, the most important mediator for pathogenesis is:

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

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

35. Clubbing is present in all except:

36. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

37. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

39. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

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

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

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

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

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

46. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

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

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