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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does 'oxygen' content in blood refer to?






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






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






4. What is somatomedin C?






5. what Cardiac condition does the valsalva maneuver abolish? how? what muscle is most important?






6. Acyl coA synthetase is not...






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






8. hypertensive crises on food intake is typical of What antidepressant? what kind of food?






9. what murmur is enhanced by decreased blood flow to the heart?






10. how will ectopic pregnancy rupture present? What is key history question for diagnosis? what would a uterine biopsy show?






11. What are the three dopaminergic systems and What are they responsible for? disease?






12. 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?






13. What is epleronone?






14. What is the immune deficinecy seen in ataxia telangactasia?






15. Increase in lung cancer incidence and mortality has been observed in _____ over last four decades






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






17. within the right ventricle - What are maximum pressures? the pulm arter?






18. What does extended consumption of appetite suppressants lead to?






19. What can cause aortic regurg? What is the heart sound you hear?






20. Where does vit C act in the hydroxylation of lysine residues for collagen? What is the cofactor required?






21. What type of gene is bcl 2 ? On what chromosome is it? what chromosome is IgG heavy chain on?






22. What causes wrist drop?






23. within the right atrium - What is the maximum pressure? left atrium?






24. which opponens muscle does ulnar innervate?






25. what indicates the severity of a mitral regurg ? mitral stenosis?






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






27. What is a clara cell?






28. at 2 years of age - What are the social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






29. which two drug types can cause orthostatic hypotension (think depression and BPH)?






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






31. where exactly is ACE expressed in the lungs? What type of enzyme is it?






32. sporadic colon cancer tend to arise From what type of polyps?






33. What is a primary HSV 1 infection like?






34. What is the mainstay treatment for acute mania?






35. where are Beta 1 receptors found?






36. What does anti phospholipid syndrome in SLE patients predispose them to?






37. Which nerve lies in close proximity to the inferior thyroid artery?






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






39. What is tachyphylaxis?






40. What does p53 do? what chrom is it on?






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






42. How do you treat gonococcal infection? chlymadia?






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






44. What is a side effect of ACE inhibitor that is more worrisome in patients with renal failure?who else is it worrisome in?






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






46. What type of antiarrythmics can protect against both atrial and ventricular arrythmias?






47. What is subacute sclerosisng encephalitis caused by?






48. What is the mc location of brain germinomas?What are the classic symptoms?






49. which congenital adrenal hyperplasia presents with ambiguous genitalia in females and salt retention?






50. which artery provides the majority of the blood supply to the head and neck of the femur? what happens in fracture of neck?