Pulmonology

1. Viral pneumonia may have:

2. The earliest sign of clubbing is:

3. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

4. Commonest cause of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is:

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

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

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

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

9. Expectoration of chalky sediments with gritty particles are diagnostic of:

10. The commonest benign pulmonary neoplasm is:

11. Reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis is due to:

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

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

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

15. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency PiZZ type has predominant:

16. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

17. Bradypnoea is associated with:

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

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

20. Calcification of pleura is not seen in:

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

22. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

24. Stridor is characteristically found in:

25. Eggshell calcification in chest X-ray is characteristic of:

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

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

28. Which is false regarding emphysema?

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

30. A characteristic feature of pulmonary hypertension does not include:

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

32. Pure O₂ therapy may produce all of the following except:

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

34. Regarding diaphragmatic palsy, which is false?

35. All are features of hypercapnia except:

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

37. The dose of which antituberculous drug need not be reduced in severe renal failure?

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

39. Haemoptysis is characteristically seen in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

46. Which is an example of exudative pleural effusion?

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

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

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

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