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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is a cardiac cause of head pounding with exertion and nocturnal palpitations? What can cause this?






2. What is a keloid?






3. what enzyme converts procarcinogens into carcinogens?






4. which antiarrythmic is associated with blue gray discoloration ?






5. what Cardiac condition does the valsalva maneuver abolish? how? what muscle is most important?






6. What are pancreatic pseudocysts called pseudo rather than true cysts?






7. which type of glands produce an initially odorless secretion but can become malodorous secondary to bacterial decompisition on the skin surface? which glands are present throughout the skin except on lips and glans penis?






8. What are three symptoms in s.typhi?






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






10. are there signs of inflammation in avascular necrosis? then How do you diagnose?






11. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






12. What is epispadias caused by?






13. What is the mc outcome of a patient acutely infected with Hep C? 2nd mc?






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






15. What causes release of myosin head from the actin filament?






16. what color pigmentations are caused by malassezia furfur? when do they become more visible?






17. how much percent of sodium is excreted? urea? glucose?






18. do Class IC agents prolong the QT interval?






19. at one year of age - What are the social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






20. what enzymes is lipoic acid a cofactor for? What does a mutation in it result in?






21. How do left sided colon adenocarcinomas present? right sided?






22. in the fluid running along the PT - what happens to PAH - inulin - urea - creatinine? how about glucose - aa - bicarb?






23. Increase in lung cancer incidence and mortality has been observed in _____ over last four decades






24. What is Bortezomib and What is it used for?






25. What is the mc location for avascular necrosis? What is it associated with?






26. What does sustained hand grip do to the C/V system?






27. IL4 is used for isotypye switching to what?






28. Would alpha 1 agonists cause flushing? muscarinic antagonist?






29. What is diphenoxylate and What is it used for? what drug is it structurally similar to? What allows for potent anti diarrheal effect without signigicant opiate effects?






30. Where does complement bind on the Fc region of Ig chains?






31. What is medullary sponge kidney disease and how does it present? What does it lead to?






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






33. Which is slower AV node or ventricular muscle?






34. Axillary lymph node dissection is a risk factor for the development of chronic lymphedema of the ipsilateral arm. What does chronic lymphedema predispose to?






35. What is the most common congenital adrenal hyperplasia? What does the enzyme convert What to what? and What is the presentation?






36. What does nitroprusside do to afterload? preload?






37. What is the mc manifestation of CMV in HIV patient? immunocompetent?






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






39. 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?






40. what drugs causes the red man syndrome? how does it occur?






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






42. what protein is increased in Crohns disease? What does it do?






43. What type of bond is a disulfide bond?






44. what kind of drug is sertraline? What is a common side effect?






45. When does dysplasia become a carcinoma - in other words When does it nonreversible? What is high grade dysplasia synonymous with?






46. why does variocele occur more in left side?






47. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






48. what organ would an activating mutation in PRPP synthetase effect?






49. What is a side effect of ACE inhibitor that is more worrisome in patients with renal failure?who else is it worrisome in?






50. where are Beta 1 receptors found?