Pulmonology

1. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

2. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

4. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

5. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

6. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

8. Restriction of bilateral chest movement is found in all except:

9. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

10. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

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

13. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

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

15. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

16. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

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

18. Chronic respiratory failure is not seen in:

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

20. Which of the following is not a recognised ocular complication of sarcoidosis?

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

22. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

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

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

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

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

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

28. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

29. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

30. Laennec’s pearls and Curschmann’s spirals in sputum are characteristically seen in:

31. Stridor is characteristically found in:

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

33. Which is not manifested as a cavitary lung lesion?

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

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

36. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

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

39. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

40. Low-dose aspirin is contraindicated in all except:

41. Which is false regarding emphysema?

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

43. Lovibond’ s angle is approximately:

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

45. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

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

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

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

50. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is: