Pulmonology

1. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

2. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

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

4. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

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

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

7. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

8. Clubbing is present in all except:

9. A bronchial adenoma is most commonly presented as:

10. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

11. A large number of eosinophils in the sputum is diagnostic of:

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

13. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

14. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

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

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

19. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

20. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

21. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

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

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

25. Bilateral hyper translucency in chest X-ray (PA view) is seen in all except:

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

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

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

29. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

30. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

32. Which variety of lung carcinoma is most commonly associated with hypercalcaemia?

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

34. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

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

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

37. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

39. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

40. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

42. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

45. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

46. Stridor is characteristically found in:

47. “Creola bodies” in sputum are pathognomonic of:

48. Which is false regarding emphysema?

49. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

50. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with: