Pulmonology

1. Viral pneumonia may have:

2. Hysterical hyperventilation may be manifested by all except:

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

4. Reduced compliance of lung is seen in all except:

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

6. All are causes of pseudoclubbing except:

7. The commonest middle mediastinal mass is:

8. The commonest cause of death in sarcoidosis is:

9. Which is false regarding emphysema?

10. Hemorrhagic pleural effusion is not characteristic of:

11. Asbestosis is not related to:

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

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

14. Rib notching exclusively in the lower border is seen in:

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

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

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

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

19. Scar carcinoma of the lung is:

20. Monophonic rhonchi are classically found in:

21. ‘Monday dyspnea’ is classically described in:

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

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

24. Exudative pleural effusion is characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

29. Bronchoscopy was first described by:

30. The commonest sign of aspiration pneumonia is:

31. Which is not a recognized complication of cystic fibrosis?

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

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

34. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is due to:

35. Pulmonary fibrosis is commonly due to complications of:

36. Therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis includes all except:

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

38. Crepitations uninfluenced by coughing are found in:

39. The commonest cause of acute cor pulmonale is:

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

41. Lung abscess is not a complication of:

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

43. Haemorrhagic pleural effusion may be seen in:

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

45. Bilateral parotid enlargement is seen in all except:

46. Pneumatocele is found in pneumonia caused by:

47. Farmers’ lung is caused by:

48. The most predominant infective agent of the respiratory tract in cystic fibrosis is:

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

50. Which of the following is false regarding ‘ageing’?