Pulmonology

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

2. Exposure to rodents may be associated with pneumonia caused by:

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

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

5. Regarding hypoventilation, all are true except:

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

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

8. A patient with hemoptysis and having a depressed bridge of the nose points towards:

9. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

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

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

13. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

14. Mantoux test may be negative in all except:

15. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

16. The commonest cause of superior mediastinal syndrome is:

17. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

18. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

19. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

21. The blood level of theophylline is diminished in associated:

22. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

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

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

25. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

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

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

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

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

30. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except:

31. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

32. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

33. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

34. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

35. Bradypnoea is associated with:

36. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

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

38. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

39. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

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

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

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

43. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

44. Hypercarbia is associated with:

45. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

47. Physiologic dead space is increased in all except:

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

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

50. Which is false regarding transudative pleural effusion?