Pulmonology

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

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

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

4. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

6. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

7. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

9. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

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

12. Asbestosis may be complicated by all except:

13. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

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

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

16. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

17. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) level is increased in all except:

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

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

20. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

21. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

22. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

23. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

24. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

27. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

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

29. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

30. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

31. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

33. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

34. Thymoma may be associated with all except:

35. Which of the following is not a neurological paraneoplastic syndrome of bronchogenic carcinoma?

36. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

38. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

39. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

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

41. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema is seen in all except:

42. Emphysema is associated with all except:

43. Bilateral pleural effusion is commonly seen in:

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

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

46. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

47. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

49. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

50. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is: