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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. How can renal blood flow be calculated from RPF?






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






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






4. on What part of the clavicle does the SCM attach?






5. What are three symptoms in s.typhi?






6. what disease causes a lack of intracellular killing? lack of killing viruses and fungi?






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






8. In what form are mitochondrial DNA? What do they transcribe?






9. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






10. What is damaged in early syringomelia? later?






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






12. do Class IC agents prolong the QT interval?






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






14. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






15. What does the superior gluteal nerve innervate? how does damage to this nerve manifest?






16. what happens to the cell body of a neuron after the axon has been severed? What is this called? What is it second to?






17. What are the acute effects of corticosteroids on the CBC?






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






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






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






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






22. What is the diagnosis in delayed puberty plus anosmia?






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






24. Where does terminal peptide cleavage of collagen fibrils take place?






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






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






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






28. What are two common side effects of both acute and long acting nitrates? What causes them?






29. What are pancreatic pseudocysts called pseudo rather than true cysts?






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






31. What can chronic vit A toxicity cause?






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






33. in treating an anemia and erythropoiesis results - what would you expect to see in peripheral blood findings transiently?






34. which are the only glycosylated proteins in HIV virus?






35. IL4 is used for isotypye switching to what?






36. What translocations can cause c - myc overexpression?






37. What is a major risk factor for progression ARDS? What is the pathology seen in ARDS- d/t what?






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






39. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






40. What is it called when you see double vision when walking down stairs or looking at nose or reading newspaper?






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






42. which trisomy is associated with endocardial cushion defects? What does thsi mean>






43. why does liver dysfunction cause coagulation disorders?






44. 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?






45. What is tachyphylaxis?






46. in essential fructosuria - what enzyme do patients use to metabolize fructose?






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






48. what provides some cutaneous sensation to the posterior external auditory canal? What can happen if pressure is put there?






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






50. what protects the resting heart from arrhythmias?