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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. who bleed more DIC or TTP- HUS patients?






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






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






4. in overweight individuals What is thought to contribute to insulin resistance?






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






6. h1 receptor anatagonists are not effective in treatment of asthma only for...






7. What is the mcc of asymmetric inflammatory arthiritis of the lower extremities in young men? what HLA association?






8. What causes wrist drop?






9. which virus inactivates both Rb and p53?






10. Where is conduction in heart fastest? slowest?






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






12. What is congestive hepatomegaly specific for?






13. what has the greatest effect on prognosis when treating c. diptheriae?






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






15. What pulmonary structural change can kartageners syndrome cause?






16. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






17. how does increased ICP result in curlings ulcers?






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






19. in the fluid running along the PT - what happens to PAH - inulin - urea - creatinine? how about glucose - aa - bicarb?






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






21. which nerve provides innervation for plantar flexion and inversion?






22. 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?






23. What is a limiting factor when initiating ACE inhibitors? hwo do you prevent a really bad reaction?






24. 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?






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






26. What is intussusception? how does ischemia and necrosis occur?






27. What type of bond is a disulfide bond?






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






29. What is diagnostic (and possible therapeutic for intussusception)?






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






31. What is a clara cell?






32. What can cause virilization of a mother during pregnancy?






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






34. What is achalasia and how would this correlate on the esophageal mannometry?






35. What is capacitance inversely proportional to?






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






37. What is the triad seen in pre eclampsia?






38. a patient fearing all white coats is a phenomenon of what?






39. How can renal blood flow be calculated from RPF?






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






41. What does 'oxygen' content in blood refer to?






42. what immune deficiency causes recurrent neisseria infections?






43. What is capsaicin? Where does it work?






44. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






45. What is the cause of fixed splitting of S2? why?






46. 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?






47. If a patient has higher levels of HbF - What does this mean?






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






49. How do you calculate RPF from urine PAH?






50. What causes curlings ulcers?