(Single Best Answer) Question 1061: A 30-year-old woman complains of suprasternal dysphagia only for solids. She also has a long-standing untreated menorrhagia leading to iron deficiency anaemia. What is the most probable cause for her dysphagia ?
A) Pharyngeal pouch B) Carcinoma oesophagus C) Dysphagia lusoria D) Patterson-Kelly syndrome Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
A) Profound gastric hypersecretion B) Large diarrhoea with occasional steatorrhoea C) Hypocalcaemia D) Hypergastrinaemia Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
A) Wegeners granulomatosis B) Tuberculosis C) Renal cell carcinoma D) SLE Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 1065: A 2-year-old child presents with a history of accidental ingestion of kerosene. He has cough, dyspnoea, high fever and his chest radiography shows ill-defined patchy opacities. What is the most probably diagnosis ?
A) Loefflers syndrome B) E. coli pneumonia C) Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis D) Lipoid pneumonia Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 1066: A 45-year-old male has rhinitis, bronchial asthma, eosinophilia and systemic vasculitis. What is the probable diagnosis ?
A) Goodpastures syndrome B) Cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis C) Churg-Strauss syndrome D) Sarcoidosis Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 1067: A 30-year-old man presents with fever and progressively increasing breathlessness since the last two weeks. His clinical examination reveals: pulse 120/min regular, BP 100/60 mm Hg, muffled S1 and S2 heart sounds. The distended jugular vein has a rapid X descent, with an absent Y descent. What is the probable diagnosis ?
A) Right ventricular failure B) Constrictive pericarditis C) Cardiac tamponade D) Left ventricular failure Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 1068: Consider the following statements: During an acute attack of asthma: 1. Pulsus paradoxus develops when the FEV1 is less than 25 percent of the predicted value
2. A normal to increased PaCO2 signals a severe airway obstruction and impending respiratory failure
3. The arterial PaCO2 decreases and the arterial pH increases
4. The presensce of cyanosis is a reliable prognostic sign
Which of the statements given above are correct ?
A) 1, 2 and 3 B) 2, 3 and 4 C) 1, 3 and 4 D) 1, 2 and 4 Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 1069: A patient is admitted with severe diarrhoea and vomiting. On examination, he is hypotensive and dehydrated. His haemoglobin is 19 gm%. The most likely reason for raised haemoglobin is ?
A) Relative polycythaemia B) Secondary polycythaemia C) Polycythaemia vera D) Essential thrombocythaemia Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):
(Single Best Answer) Question 1070: A young woman in the mid-20s with abnormally low body weight reports binge eating and purging 5 - 10 times a week for the last several years. She has intense fear of becoming fat and has a feeling that she is fat despite an objectively low weight. She has also developed amenorrhoea. What is the most appropriate diagnosis ?
A) Anorexia nervosa B) Bulimia nervosa C) Endogenous depression D) Schizophrenia Answer (Select an option above to get the answer):