Pulmonology

1. Impairment of oxygen diffusion is seen in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

7. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?

8. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

9. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

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

11. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

12. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

13. Hypercarbia is associated with:

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

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

16. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

17. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

19. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

20. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

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

23. Bronchoalveolar lavage is indicated in the evaluation of:

24. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

25. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

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

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

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

30. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

32. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

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

35. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

36. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

38. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

39. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

41. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

42. The next step in a patient with haemoptysis with a non-conclusive chest X-ray is:

43. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

44. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

46. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

48. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

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

50. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately: