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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. the rate of blood flow of which two circulations must equal each other at all times?






2. What can worse neurologic dysfunction in cobalamic def?






3. what happens to capacitance with age?






4. there are mucus secreting cells in the bronchioles...






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






6. how does neisseria cause a petechial rash?






7. What are fenfluramine - phentermine?






8. What can differentiate between relative and absolute erythrocytosis? What can distinguish between primary and secondary erythrocytosis (both absolute mind you)?






9. what happens to sperm count and semineferous tubules in patient with cryptoorchidism? hormonal function? why do they need to be surgically descended?






10. Acyl coA synthetase is not...






11. which two virus families have hemagluttinin on their surface?






12. What is the mcc of extrinsic allergic asthma?






13. which virus inactivates both Rb and p53?






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






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






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






17. 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?






18. What is the mutation type in thalassemias? what process is defective because of this?






19. which artery provides the majority of the blood supply to the head and neck of the femur? what happens in fracture of neck?






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






21. What is a primary HSV 1 infection like?






22. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






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






24. What is a common complication of acute pancreatitis? What is it?






25. What does anti phospholipid syndrome in SLE patients predispose them to?






26. which nerve in the lower leg is easily injured and causes foot drop ? What are common causes? From what nerve does it branch off or?






27. why does variocele occur more in left side?






28. What does the inferior gluteal nerve innervate? how does damage to this nerve manifest?






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






30. which nerve is at risk when ligating the superior thyroid artery? Which is the only muscle this nerve innervates? what nerve innervates all the other laryngeal muscles?






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






32. Where is high frequency sound best recepted? low frequency sound? Which is lost more in elderly?






33. which congenital hyperbilirubinemia actually presents with serious symptoms? which are less serious/






34. integrin mediated adhesion of cells to ECM (and BM) involves integrin binding to what?






35. why should you not use ACE inhibitors with someone who had hereditary angioedema?






36. What translocations can cause c - myc overexpression?






37. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






38. What type of bond is a disulfide bond?






39. on which chromosome is wilms tumor found?






40. What is cataplexy and When is it seen?






41. what would be a sign of absence of cardiogenic pulm edem?






42. Where does glycolsylation occur of alpha procollagen chains occur? disulfide bond formation at the C terminus?






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






44. What is dobutamine? What is it used for?how it is it most helpful? What is bad about it?






45. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?






46. which congenital adrenal hyperplasia presents with all genotypes as phenotypically female and with salt retention and hypertension?






47. What is the cause of rapid plasma decay of thiopental?






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






49. 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?






50. What is a major risk factor for progression ARDS? What is the pathology seen in ARDS- d/t what?