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






2. What does VIP do to gastric acid secretion?






3. What is diagnostic (and possible therapeutic for intussusception)?






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Which is faster purkinje system or atrial muscle?






11. prostaglandin synthesis keeps...






12. what enzyme converts procarcinogens into carcinogens?






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






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






15. What is mcc of death pre hospital phase of MI? in hospital phase?






16. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






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






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






19. If a patient has higher levels of HbF - What does this mean?






20. What is the mutation type in thalassemias? what process is defective because of this?






21. Where does conjugation of bilirubin take place?






22. after a thrombus extraction - what serum enzyme shoots up and why?






23. what clinical findings help distinguish small cell carcinoma?






24. What is the only catecholamine that is made in only one place? where? By what enzyme? controlled by what?






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






26. Is there edema in primary Conns? secondary hyperaldosteronism? why?






27. what would be a sign of absence of cardiogenic pulm edem?






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






29. What type of drug is atropine? what else is needed in addition to atropine when treating organophosphate poison?






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






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






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






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






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






35. How do you calculate RPF from urine PAH?






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






37. non ceruloplasmin deposition - ceruloplasmin is...






38. Where does lysyl oxidase act? What is the cofactor for that?






39. what should you think of in 'smear of an oral ulcer base'?






40. why should you not use ACE inhibitors with someone who had hereditary angioedema?






41. What is the diagnosis in a patient with bilateral upper extremity hyporeflexia and bilateral lower extremity hyperreflexia?






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






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






44. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






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






46. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






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






48. why does neutrophila occur with corticosteroids?






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






50. after triglyceride metabolism - What is the fate of the glycerol? what enzyme is involved?