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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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1. What is the mcc of nephrotic syndrome in children and can occur in adults as wel?






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






3. which staphylococci can do mannitol fermaentation?






4. What triggers the neoplastic changes that are associated with HBV infecton?






5. what drug causes aggression - nystagmus - ataxia - slurred speech - exaggerated gait and involuntary movements?






6. What is subacute sclerosisng encephalitis caused by?






7. 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?






8. What type of drug is alendronate?






9. why does hypothyroidism cause increased CPK levels?






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






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






12. what disease causes hypoxia induced hemolysis? oxidant induced hemolysis?






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






14. What is somatomedin C?






15. What can worse neurologic dysfunction in cobalamic def?






16. Where is the base of the heart? apex?






17. What is contraindicated in toxic mega colon?






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






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






20. What type of bond is a disulfide bond?






21. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






22. What is the most common cause of hydatid cysts in humans? What does spilling of cysts cause?






23. what hernia has a similar mechanism to hydrocele?






24. what increases turbulence and thus causes bruits? (specifically in terms of viscosity and velocity)






25. What is usually teh last gene mutation in development of a carcinoma (from an adenoma for example)?






26. What does prolonged PT indicated? aPTT? bleeding time?






27. why does neutrophila occur with corticosteroids?






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






29. What is diphenoxylate and What is it used for? what drug is it structurally similar to? What allows for potent anti diarrheal effect without signigicant opiate effects?






30. What is the presentation of angioedema? Where is most commonly affected?






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






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






33. What aa is NAD+ coenyzme synthesized endogenously from? What does def cause?






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






35. What causes vertical diplopia? horizontal?






36. if there are keratin swirls does that mean well or poorly differentiated?






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






38. what presents congenitally as macroglossia - generalized hypotonia - and an umbilical hernia?






39. What can chronic vit A toxicity cause?






40. What is the most common initital symptom of ADPKD? what else?






41. What are the two pharmacologic antagonists that offer clear benefit in allergic asthma?






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






43. in a positively skewed distribution is the mean greater than or equal to the median or the mode?






44. what marker should be followed in a patient with cirrhosis?






45. What type of vision is myopia? In What type of patients does it improve?






46. do Class IC agents prolong the QT interval?






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






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






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






50. What is the stabilizing force for the secondary structure of proteins?







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