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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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1. What is used to compare means? categorical outcomes?






2. What does L/S stand for in fetal lung maturity? When does maturity occur?






3. What are fenfluramine - phentermine?






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






5. What are the two coagulase negative staphylococci? How do you distinguish them?






6. What is a cord factor and Which bugs have it? How do they appear on culture?






7. What does C1 esterase do other than inhibiting complement pathway?






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






9. What is the mc manifestation of CMV in HIV patient? immunocompetent?






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






11. What is the neurologic manifestation of ADPKD?






12. What is omalizumab and What is it used for?






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






14. do Class IC agents prolong the QT interval?






15. where are Beta 1 receptors found?






16. What is Tzanck smear used to detect?






17. What are diastolic (lowest) pressures in aorta? LV?






18. what vessel would a fracture to the neck of the of the humerus damage?






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






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






21. What agonists reduce the gradient across the LV outflow tract?






22. how can HAV be inactivated?






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






24. Which is slower AV node or ventricular muscle?






25. hypertonicity and hyperreflexity are ________________ of hydrocephalus






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






27. niacin used for hyperlipidemia - What are its side effects? why do they occur? how can you prevent them?






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






29. In what population does cholelithiasis occur?






30. What is the general compensatory mechanism to prevent edema is situations with increased central venous pressure?






31. which staphylococci can do mannitol fermaentation?






32. What is a cardiac cause of head pounding with exertion and nocturnal palpitations? What can cause this?






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






34. What are examples of action that decrease venous return to the heart?






35. What is difference between Arnold Chiari type I and II?






36. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






37. which RPGN is also called pauci immune GN? why?






38. which anti epileptic is preferred in patients with both absence and tonic clonic seizures?






39. 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?






40. What would a deflection of the membrane potential to near zero indicate?






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






42. What pulmonary structural change can kartageners syndrome cause?






43. What is used to prevent vertical transmission of HIV?






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






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






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






47. What is the difference between Acyl CoA carboxylase and Acyl CoA dehydrogenase?






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






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

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