FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
APRIL 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
TUBERCULOSIS RESPIRATORY DISEASES/PULMONARY MEDICINE
PAPER I
RPD/APRIL/16/42/I
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. Various parameters used in the assessment of oxygen
uptake, transport and utilization of critically ill patient.

2. What is a systematic review? Outline its role in clinical
medicine.
4+6
3. Define anion gap. Briefly describe its application in the
interpretation of arterial blood gas analysis.
2+8
4. Outline the lymphatic drainage of lung. Enumerate and briefly
describe lymphatic disorders of the respiratory system.
3+7
5. Pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of
pleuropulmonary amoebiasis.

6. Enumerate respiratory disorders of high attitude and describe
the mechanism of its pathogenesis.
3+7
7. Pathogenesis, clinical features and diagnosis of bronchopulmonary
sequestration.

8. Pulmonary surfactant and its role in disease.
5+5
9. Indications and modalities of cardio-pulmonary exercise
testing.
4+6
10. Define airway remodeling and outline the mechanisms
involved in its pathogenesis.
2+8