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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 the primary histologic finding in patients with eczematous dermatitis?






2. why does variocele occur more in left side?






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






4. Where is aromatase used?






5. What are the long term consequences of hydrocephalus?






6. What actions increase venous return?






7. why does neutrophila occur with corticosteroids?






8. What are the two growth factors associated with angiogenesis?






9. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






10. What are the first generation anti histamines?






11. What is the presentation of sever aortic stenosis?






12. What is best to prevent GBS infection in a baby?






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






14. 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?






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






16. What is usually teh last gene mutation in development of a carcinoma (from an adenoma for example)?






17. prostaglandin synthesis keeps...






18. what happens to PaO2 - % sat - and O2 content in: Anemia - polycythemia - CO poisoning?






19. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






20. What torch causes an intrapartum infection (as opposed to the rest which are in utero)?






21. What does extended consumption of appetite suppressants lead to?






22. erythema nodosum - elevated ACE - scattered granulomas - arthralgias - hilar lymphadenoapthy are indicative of what?






23. facial pain and headache in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis is highly suggestive of what? How do you diagnose? What is a char finding?






24. at 2 years of age - What are the social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






25. What translocations can cause c - myc overexpression?






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






27. in a positively skewed distribution is the mean greater than or equal to the median or the mode?






28. hypertensive crises on food intake is typical of What antidepressant? what kind of food?






29. what should you think of with coarctation of aorta - bicuspid valves and horseshoe kidney?






30. Metronidizaole does not cover...






31. How do bradykinin - C3a and C5a cause edema?






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






33. What is the best indicator for the severity of mitral stenosis?






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






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






36. which headaches are seen mostly in men - are severe - unilateral - periorbital - episodic (around same time every day) - temporal pain - with lacrimation - nasal congestion and ptosis?






37. which antiarrythmic is associated with blue gray discoloration ?






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






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






40. What causes vertical diplopia? horizontal?






41. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?






42. other than in pyelonephritis - where else are WBC casts seen?






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






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






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






46. What are fenfluramine - phentermine?






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






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






49. What is pickwickian syndrome? What are the lab findings?






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