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






2. What does sustained hand grip do to the C/V system?






3. 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?






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






5. What are biphosphanate drugs structurally similar to? What are they used in the treatment of?






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






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






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






9. how long is substance P? What does it do?






10. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






11. 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?






12. What is the sole neurologic manifestation of acute rheumatic fever?






13. what composes the superior and inferior borders of the right side of the cardiac silouhette in a CXR? Where is the pulm arter?






14. What is the most common cause of pyelonephritis in both adults and childre?






15. What is an abortive viral infection?






16. on which chromosome - and which gene - are people with sporadic and hereditary renal cell carcinomas found to have mutations?






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






18. SIADH patients have normal blood volume but...






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






20. What three things can reduce the risk of non hereditary ovarian and endometrial cancer?






21. why does liver dysfunction cause coagulation disorders?






22. which has better side effect profile - SSRI or TCA?






23. what happens to capacitance with age?






24. What does VIP do to gastric acid secretion?






25. how does increased ICP result in curlings ulcers?






26. do patients with cor pulmonale have increased or decreased levels of aldosterone?






27. What type of drug is alendronate?






28. other than increasing HDL levels - what else does niacin do?






29. what bursa is affected when on knees like a maid/gardner?






30. What is a cell surface marker seen in liver angiosarcoma?






31. What is 5- HETE and What does it do?






32. When does dysplasia become a carcinoma - in other words When does it nonreversible? What is high grade dysplasia synonymous with?






33. What is the fibrinogen level in patient with TTP- HUS? DIC?






34. the rate of blood flow of which two circulations must equal each other at all times?






35. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?






36. What is cataplexy and When is it seen?






37. What three pathogens cause infectious esophagitis in HIV positive patients?






38. What are the first generation anti histamines?






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






40. What are the primary determinants of colon cancer risk in UC patients






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






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






43. where are Beta 1 receptors found?






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






45. what nerve and artery course along the posterior aspect of the humerus?






46. What is the preferred treatment for DKA?






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






48. What is hypospadias caused by?






49. IL4 is used for isotypye switching to what?






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