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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the skin presentation in sarcoid?






2. What is the mcc of nephrotic syndrome in children and can occur in adults as wel?






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






4. What causes wrist drop?






5. at three years of age What are social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






6. nucleotide deletions do not cause missense mutations - they cause...






7. What is capsaicin? Where does it work?






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






9. what pathology is found around the illeo cecal valve and presents in 2 year old children with colicky abdominal pain and currant jelly stools?






10. why are pregnant predisposed to cholelithiasis?






11. which staphylococci can do mannitol fermaentation?






12. eukaryotes are often polycistronic (multiple genes per mRNA) so ____________ is linked






13. Where does vasopressin act - on the medullary or cortical segment of collecting tubule?






14. what drugs causes the red man syndrome? how does it occur?






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






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






17. What are three symptoms in s.typhi?






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






19. on which chromosome is wilms tumor found?






20. What can worse neurologic dysfunction in cobalamic def?






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






22. What does Rb protein do? what chrom is it on?






23. how does neisseria cause a petechial rash?






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






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






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






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






28. What causes vertical diplopia? horizontal?






29. What can too much IgA in serum produces?






30. Where does 90% of serotonin lie? What is this NT responsible?






31. Where does the aorta lie in relation to the pulmonary artery in transposition of the great arteries (is this right to left or left to right shunt?)?






32. name three pathological states that present with large tongues.






33. what immune deficiency causes recurrent neisseria infections?






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






35. Is the uterus enlarged in endometriosis? does it cause dyspareunia?






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






37. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






38. What is the mcc of elevated AFP leves in pregnancy>






39. prostaglandin synthesis keeps...






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






41. hemaglobin and hematocrit levels cannot __________ between relative and absolute erythrocytosis






42. what color pigmentations are caused by malassezia furfur? when do they become more visible?






43. what receptors do first generation anti histamines block?






44. What are the three causes of acute MI in context of normal coronary arteries ?






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






46. there are mucus secreting cells in the bronchioles...






47. which viruses require a protease?






48. What three factors effect total oxygen content of blood?






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






50. what enzymes is lipoic acid a cofactor for? What does a mutation in it result in?