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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 are the lab findings in poststreptococcal GN?






2. What does the severity of leprosy depend on?






3. What type of endocarditis is cytoscopy induced?






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






5. What type of drug is alendronate?






6. in B12 deficiency - what levels in blood rise very quickly and then drop?






7. after triglyceride metabolism - What is the fate of the glycerol? what enzyme is involved?






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






9. metabolism of 1 gram of protein produces How many calories? carb? fat?






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






11. what makes bruits?






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






13. why are pregnant predisposed to cholelithiasis?






14. When is acid phosphatase elevated (Name two times)?






15. What almost exclusively causes Epliglottitis?What type of capsule does it have? What are the symptoms?

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16. What are the skin presentation in sarcoid?






17. Where does lysyl oxidase act? What is the cofactor for that?






18. Which is slower AV node or ventricular muscle?






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






20. what hormone is structurally similar to hCG?






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






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






23. What causes vertical diplopia? horizontal?






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






25. how does increased ICP result in curlings ulcers?






26. is strep pneumo optochin resistant or susceptible? bile soluble or insoluble?






27. What is low levels of C1 esterase inhibitor diagnostic of? how can this be acquired?






28. up to what level are ciliated cells present in the pulmonary system? mucus producing cells?






29. What causes curlings ulcers?






30. Where is conduction in heart fastest? slowest?






31. What are fenfluramine - phentermine?






32. are strep pneumo bile sensitive or bile resistant? bile soluble or insoluble?






33. what pathology is found around the illeo cecal valve and presents in 2 year old children with colicky abdominal pain and currant jelly stools?






34. What is the key lab finding seen in type III serum sickness? What are some drugs that can induce it?






35. why does hypothyroidism cause increased CPK levels?






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






37. What can nitrates lead to that is bad for angina therapy? How do you counter this?






38. what diseases can vit A be used to treat?






39. why are beta thal major patients asymptomatic at birth?






40. What is the most important prognostic indicator in patients with malignant melanoma?






41. where exactly is ACE expressed in the lungs? What type of enzyme is it?






42. What is the only cranial nerve that comes out dorsally? What does this mean clinically?






43. what protects the resting heart from arrhythmias?






44. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






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






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






47. why is crohns disease associated with oxaloacetate kidney stones?






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






49. how does neisseria cause a petechial rash?






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