Pulmonology

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

2. Clubbing occurs earliest with:

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

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

5. Which of the following is not common in primary pulmonary tuberculosis?

6. The commonest posterior mediastinal tumour is:

7. Which of the following is not an example of hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

8. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

9. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

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

11. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

12. This is true in a predominant “blue bloater”?

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

14. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

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

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

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

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

19. The most reliable symptom of acute pulmonary thromboembolism is:

20. Chest X-ray shows miliary mottling in all except:

21. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

22. Farmer’s lung is caused by:

23. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

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

25. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, ankle arthritis and erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis is known as:

26. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

27. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

28. Drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia is caused by all except:

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

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

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

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

33. Pulmonary fibrosis is not produced by:

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

35. Diffusing capacity of the lung at rest is:

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

37. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

38. P-pulmonale in ECG is seen in:

39. The lower part of right border of cardiac silhouette in a chest X-ray (PA view) is usually formed by:

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

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

42. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

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

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

45. Commonest cause of haemoptysis worldwide is:

46. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

47. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

48. In lobar pneumonia, which is not true?

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

50. A high amylase in pleural fluid is found in all except