Rheumatology

1. Reiter’s syndrome is not featured by:

2. Rheumatoid arthritis patients confront an increased risk of developing all except:

3. Clutton’s joint is characteristic of:

4. Rose-Waaler test (RF) is positive in rheumatoid arthritis in:

5. Highest incidence of rheumatoid factor (RF) is found in:

6. The commonest metabolic bone disease is:

7. In rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid factor is formed against:

8. Sjogren’s syndrome may be associated with all except:

9. The commonest presentation of cardiac lupus is:

10. Scleroderma-like lesion may be produced by all except:

11. Ocular manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis usually do not include:

12. ‘Arthritis mutilans’ is characteristic of:

13. Cytoid (colloid) bodies in the retina are recognised finding in:

14. Multiple myeloma is associated with all of the following except:

15. Which of the following is commonly involved in Paget’s disease?

16. Forrestier’s disease is associated with:

17. Still’s disease does not give rise to:

18. Regarding drug-induced SLE, which is false?

19. Jaccoud’s arthropathy is not characteristic of:

20. Gout may be treated by all except:

21. Eosinophilic fasciitis does not give rise to:

22. Calcinosis is featured by all except:

23. Recurrent anterior uveitis is most characteristic of:

24. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is most commonly due to:

25. Terminal interphalangeal joint is classically involved in:

26. Drug-induced SLE is not commonly associated with:

27. Raynaud’s phenomenon is not a feature of:

28. CREST syndrome is an aggregation of calcinosis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, sclerodactyly, telangiectasia and __?

29. Which organ involvement does not occur in progressive systemic sclerosis?

30. Polymyalgia rheumatica is not associated with:

31. Which does not produce an erythematous butterfly-like lesion on face?

32. Which of the following is not an extra-articular manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis?

33. Rheumatoid nodules are characterised by all except:

34. Nodal osteoarthritis is common in:

35. All of the following indicate poor prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis except:

36. Oesophagus is most commonly involved by:

37. Drug-induced livedo reticularis is seen with:

38. Polyarteritis nodosa is not manifested by:

39. False-positive serological test (VDRL) persisting for 6 months is seen in all except:

40. HLA B-27 is usually detected in all except:

41. Inclusion body myositis is characterised by all except:

42. Antitopoisomerase-1 virtually diagnoses:

43. The commonest organism involved in osteomyelitis is:

44. Exacerbations of SLE are produced by:

45. Felty’s syndrome is not associated with:

46. Which is true regarding synovial fluid analysis in osteoarthritis?

47. Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a combination of SLE, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis and  __?

48. Pseudogout may result from all except:

49. ANA is positive in SLE in approximately:

50. In Churg-Strauss syndrome, the principal organ involved is: