Pulmonology

1. Characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia are all except:

2. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

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

4. The risk factor for acquiring tuberculosis is maximum in:

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

6. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

8. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

10. Caplan’s syndrome is coal worker’s pneumoconiosis associated with:

11. Which of the following is a sex-linked disease?

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

13. Which opportunistic organism commonly affects patients of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis?

14. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

15. All of the following are allergic reactions to tuberculosis except:

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

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

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

19. Amphoric breath sound is found in:

20. Which is false regarding emphysema?

21. The commonest histologic variety of bronchogenic carcinoma is:

22. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

23. FEV1/FVC is decreased in:

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

25. Which of the following antituberculosis drugs should be completely avoided during pregnancy?

26. Melanoptysis (black sputum) is seen in:

27. ‘Primary’ spontaneous pneumothorax is associated with:

28. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

29. Orthodeoxia is characteristic of:

30. All are commonly seen in Legionella pneumophilia-induced pneumonia except:

31. The commonest cause of respiratory failure is:

32. All of the following commonly affects the upper zone of the lung in chest X-ray except:

33. Bronchopleural fistula is commonly due to:

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

35. The cranial nerve most commonly affected in sarcoidosis is:

36. Pink, frothy and profuse sputum is seen in:

37. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

38. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

39. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

40. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

41. Which of the following is not responsible for the development of interstitial lung disease?

42. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

43. Emphysema is associated with all except:

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

45. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

46. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

47. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

48. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

50. Stridor is characteristically found in: