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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 skin presentation in sarcoid?






2. lipid filled plaques in which arteries does thigh claudication suggest? difficulty sustaining an erection?






3. What is a keloid?






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






5. What type of calcium channels dictate the plateau in cardiac myocyte?






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






7. What is the stabilizing force for the secondary structure of proteins?






8. What are fenfluramine - phentermine?






9. ___________ is liver specific






10. What is the mcc of cystitis and and acute pyelonephritis? mcc of UTI in sexually active women?






11. which cells produce surfactant? which ones mediate gas exchange?






12. What translocations can cause c - myc overexpression?






13. what clinical findings help distinguish small cell carcinoma?






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






15. where are Beta 1 receptors found?






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






17. 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?






18. Where is aromatase used?






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






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






21. what hernia has a similar mechanism to hydrocele?






22. Which is slower AV node or ventricular muscle?






23. how does increased ICP result in curlings ulcers?






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






25. why is there only minor blood pressure increase during exercise if sympathetic activity is high (to increase CO and HR)?






26. what defines hypoxemia?






27. What is epispadias caused by?






28. When is an S4 sound normal?






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






30. how does eos release MBP to kill protozoa etc?






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






32. What actions increase venous return?






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






34. What type of gene is bcl 2 ? On what chromosome is it? what chromosome is IgG heavy chain on?






35. What is the diagnosis in a patient with bilateral upper extremity hyporeflexia and bilateral lower extremity hyperreflexia?






36. 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?






37. How do you treat gonococcal infection? chlymadia?






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






39. what stimulates bicarb secretion from the pancreas? Where is this hormone produced?






40. which staphylococci can do mannitol fermaentation?






41. What is the neurologic manifestation of ADPKD?






42. why does variocele occur more in left side?






43. 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?






44. Where does 90% of serotonin lie? What is this NT responsible?






45. the rate of blood flow of which two circulations must equal each other at all times?






46. other than mycobacterim wha other bacteria is acid fast?






47. What is the precursor protein to beta amyloid and On what chromosome is it found?






48. does congenital renal hypoplasia cause secondary hypertension? how about unilateral renal artery stenosis?






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






50. What are the three presentations of ataxia telangectasia? What does the mutation cause? What is the mode of inheritance?