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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. why is crohns disease associated with oxaloacetate kidney stones?






2. lipid filled plaques in which arteries does thigh claudication suggest? difficulty sustaining an erection?






3. What is used to compare means? categorical outcomes?






4. What is difference between Arnold Chiari type I and II?






5. why are pregnant predisposed to cholelithiasis?






6. what happens with LDL receptor density in statin therapy?






7. What type of disease has selective proteinuria? What is found in urine? What is not?






8. which nucleus releases serotonin?






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






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






11. What is capacitance inversely proportional to?






12. What causes alpha helical proteins in alzheimers to become insoluble and prone to aggregating?






13. Acyl coA synthetase is not...






14. PDAs are often asymptomatic. How do you treat?






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






16. What is Bortezomib and What is it used for?






17. IL4 is used for isotypye switching to what?






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






19. which viruses require a protease?






20. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






21. What is the presentation of sever aortic stenosis?






22. other than increasing HDL levels - what else does niacin do?






23. when do ghon complexes form - primary or secondary TB?






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






25. what stimulates bicarb secretion from the pancreas? Where is this hormone produced?






26. What is the most common congenital adrenal hyperplasia? What does the enzyme convert What to what? and What is the presentation?






27. Where is aromatase used?






28. What does TGF beta do? What produces it?






29. What is intussusception? how does ischemia and necrosis occur?






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






31. How is dobutamine better than dopamine?






32. What type of endocarditis is cytoscopy induced?






33. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






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






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






36. What is it called if psychotic symptoms last less than one month? one to six months? more than six months?






37. when arrested in prophase of meiosis I - What are primary oocytes chrom number? What about the secondary oocytes that are stuck in metaphase of Meiosis II?






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






39. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






40. How do you calculate atributable risk percent?






41. When is acid phosphatase elevated (Name two times)?






42. which two virus families have hemagluttinin on their surface?






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






44. why does liver dysfunction cause coagulation disorders?






45. What is congestive hepatomegaly specific for?






46. 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?






47. What can differentiate between relative and absolute erythrocytosis? What can distinguish between primary and secondary erythrocytosis (both absolute mind you)?






48. What are some side effects seen in TCAs?






49. In what population does cholelithiasis occur?






50. What does the clinical presentation of restlessness - agitation - dysphagia - and progression to coma 30-50 days after cave exploring? hwo do you prevent?