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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 prolonged PT indicated? aPTT? bleeding time?






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






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






4. how does eos release MBP to kill protozoa etc?






5. at one year of age - What are the social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






6. Where is aromatase used?






7. 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?)?






8. What does phosphoglycerate mutase produce? In what process - instead of what? what cells used this and why?






9. IL4 is used for isotypye switching to what?






10. how much percent of sodium is excreted? urea? glucose?






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






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






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






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






15. What is the difference between paranoid personality disorder and delusional disorder?






16. Where does terminal peptide cleavage of collagen fibrils take place?






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






18. what dictates the resting membrane potential of most cells?






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






20. When is an S4 sound normal?






21. What is used to prevent vertical transmission of HIV?






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






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






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






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






26. What does protein M do in Group A strep<






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






28. What is pickwickian syndrome? What are the lab findings?






29. What is a primary HSV 1 infection like?






30. what composes the superior and inferior borders of the right side of the cardiac silouhette in a CXR? Where is the pulm arter?






31. erythema nodosum - elevated ACE - scattered granulomas - arthralgias - hilar lymphadenoapthy are indicative of what?






32. what locations of UC increase the risk of Colon cancer?






33. are strep pneumo bile sensitive or bile resistant? bile soluble or insoluble?






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






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






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






37. What three pathogens cause infectious esophagitis in HIV positive patients?






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






39. What effects does cortisol have on catecholamines?






40. why is there only minor blood pressure increase during exercise if sympathetic activity is high (to increase CO and HR)?






41. 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?






42. What is dobutamine? What is it used for?how it is it most helpful? What is bad about it?






43. what protects the resting heart from arrhythmias?






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






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






46. in the LV and aorta - What are the pressures?






47. In what population does cholelithiasis occur?






48. What does NF- KB do?






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






50. Where does conjugation of bilirubin take place?