Pulmonology

1. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

2. All are features of hypercapnia except:

3. ‘Closing volume’ of the lung is increased in:

4. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

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

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

7. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

8. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

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

10. All are true in pneumomediastinum except:

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

12. Bradypnoea is associated with:

13. Hypercarbia is associated with:

14. Which is not a known consequence of asbestosis?

15. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

16. Classic dermatological manifestation of chronic sarcoidosis is:

17. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

18. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

21. Malt worker’s lung is caused by:

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

23. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

24. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

25. Viral pneumonia may have:

26. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

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

29. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

30. Characteristic body in sarcoidosis is:

1.  B.
2.  D. Schaumann bodies

31. The dome of the diaphragm is elevated in:

32. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy is seen in all except:

33. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

35. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

36. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

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

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

41. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

43. Which of the following is used to treat cystic fibrosis?

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

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

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

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

48. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

49. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in:

50. Hepatopulmonary syndrome is characterised by all except: