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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three presentations of ataxia telangectasia? What does the mutation cause? What is the mode of inheritance?






2. What are the three dopaminergic systems and What are they responsible for? disease?






3. h1 receptor anatagonists are not effective in treatment of asthma only for...






4. What is a cord factor and Which bugs have it? How do they appear on culture?






5. What is the diagnosis in delayed puberty plus anosmia?






6. What type of mutation does aflatoxin cause? what cancer does this increase for?






7. What are the three top bacterial causes of acute otitis media - sinusitis - and conjuctivitis?






8. What is subacute sclerosisng encephalitis caused by?






9. do patients with cor pulmonale have increased or decreased levels of aldosterone?






10. What is mcc of death pre hospital phase of MI? in hospital phase?






11. what phase do adenosine and acetylcholine act on? doing what?






12. What is Tzanck smear used to detect?






13. are strep pneumo bile sensitive or bile resistant? bile soluble or insoluble?






14. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






15. What is tachyphylaxis?






16. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






17. How is dobutamine better than dopamine?






18. What is a primary HSV 1 infection like?






19. What are ulcers arising in the proximal duodenum in association with severe trauma or burns called?






20. what provides some cutaneous sensation to the posterior external auditory canal? What can happen if pressure is put there?






21. What is the mcc of nephrotic syndrome in children and can occur in adults as wel?






22. What is the general compensatory mechanism to prevent edema is situations with increased central venous pressure?






23. in the LV and aorta - What are the pressures?






24. why does hypothyroidism cause increased CPK levels?






25. Where does terminal peptide cleavage of collagen fibrils take place?






26. What is a keloid?






27. what immune deficiency causes recurrent neisseria infections?






28. How can renal blood flow be calculated from RPF?






29. What are the common causes of metabolic alkalosis? How do you differentiate between them?






30. What type of disease has selective proteinuria? What is found in urine? What is not?






31. What is the most common location of colonization of all s. aureus types?






32. What are the two mcc of focal brain lesions in HIV positive patients?






33. What is a cell surface marker seen in liver angiosarcoma?






34. What would a deflection of the membrane potential to near zero indicate?






35. How do you explain the selective proteinuria of loss to albumin only in MCD?






36. What are the two coagulase negative staphylococci? How do you distinguish them?






37. what should you think of in 'smear of an oral ulcer base'?






38. which opponens muscle does ulnar innervate?






39. What is a malignant pustule? What is it usually caused by? What type of capsule does it have?






40. What is the Na/Ca exchange used for?






41. What is cataplexy and When is it seen?






42. when arrested in prophase of meiosis I - What are primary oocytes chrom number? What about the secondary oocytes that are stuck in metaphase of Meiosis II?






43. in essential fructosuria - what enzyme do patients use to metabolize fructose?






44. non ceruloplasmin deposition - ceruloplasmin is...






45. what dictates the resting membrane potential of most cells?






46. When does neovascularization granulation tissue begin to form after severe ischemia and MI? what happens in 12-24 hours? 2 weeks to 2 months? 1-5 days? 0-4 hours? when do you see edema - hemorrhage - wavy fibers?






47. Is there edema in primary Conns? secondary hyperaldosteronism? why?






48. What type of drug is atropine? what else is needed in addition to atropine when treating organophosphate poison?






49. Which is faster atrial muscle or ventricular muscle?






50. What is hyaline arteriosclerosis usually a sign of ?