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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is difference between Arnold Chiari type I and II?






2. What is the most common cause of pyelonephritis in both adults and childre?






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






4. What is hypospadias caused by?






5. What is the presentation of sever aortic stenosis?






6. 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?






7. What does hypocapnia cause in teh brain? What is hypocapnia?






8. What is gardeners mydriasis? How is it treated?






9. What are the two pharmacologic antagonists that offer clear benefit in allergic asthma?






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






11. How do you calculate excretion rate of a substance? How do you calculate the filtration rate of a substance? clearance of what substance estimates the GFR?






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






13. what nerve and artery course along the posterior aspect of the humerus?






14. how does increased ICP result in curlings ulcers?






15. What is a keloid?






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






17. What can chronic vit A toxicity cause?






18. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






19. eukaryotes are often polycistronic (multiple genes per mRNA) so ____________ is linked






20. How is dobutamine better than dopamine?






21. What is the most common neurologic complication of VZV reactivation?






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






23. What does the severity of leprosy depend on?






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






25. What are the three predominant symptoms of VHL? What is its mode of inheritance?






26. What is somatomedin C?






27. What antibiotic is best to treat alcoholic pulm infections? why?






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






29. What translocations can cause c - myc overexpression?






30. why does variocele occur more in left side?






31. What does TGF beta do? What produces it?






32. when do ghon complexes form - primary or secondary TB?






33. how does achalasia present? What does barium swallow show on dilated esophagus?






34. Where does vasopressin act - on the medullary or cortical segment of collecting tubule?






35. What does the clinical presentation of restlessness - agitation - dysphagia - and progression to coma 30-50 days after cave exploring? hwo do you prevent?






36. How do you calculate RPF from urine PAH?






37. what happens to the cell body of a neuron after the axon has been severed? What is this called? What is it second to?






38. other than increasing HDL levels - what else does niacin do?






39. niacin used for hyperlipidemia - What are its side effects? why do they occur? how can you prevent them?






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






41. Where is conduction in heart fastest? slowest?






42. within the right ventricle - What are maximum pressures? the pulm arter?






43. What causes congenital QT prolongation syndrome? What is death caused by? in one of the syndromes - What is a common other symptom?






44. which nucleus releases serotonin?






45. What are the acute effects of corticosteroids on the CBC?






46. What causes alpha helical proteins in alzheimers to become insoluble and prone to aggregating?






47. What are two common side effects of both acute and long acting nitrates? What causes them?






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






49. What type of cancer is keratin swirls indicative of ? What is the prognosis of this cancer in the esophagus? What is it associated with?






50. In what view of CXR is anterior part of heart best seen? anterior part of heart is formed by?right border of heart is formed by? left border?