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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What can nitrates lead to that is bad for angina therapy? How do you counter this?






2. What is congestive hepatomegaly specific for?






3. what bursa is affected when on knees like a maid/gardner?






4. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






5. What are the two growth factors associated with angiogenesis?






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






7. What are the potassium sparing diuretics?






8. What can chronic vit A toxicity cause?






9. What is the most important prognostic indicator in patients with malignant melanoma?






10. 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?






11. What type of drug is alendronate?






12. What is the presentation of sever aortic stenosis?






13. How do you calculate excretion rate of a substance? How do you calculate the filtration rate of a substance? clearance of what substance estimates the GFR?






14. What almost exclusively causes Epliglottitis?What type of capsule does it have? What are the symptoms?

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






16. What is the preferred treatment for DKA?






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






18. does congenital renal hypoplasia cause secondary hypertension? how about unilateral renal artery stenosis?






19. Where is high frequency sound best recepted? low frequency sound? Which is lost more in elderly?






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






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






22. What are three symptoms in s.typhi?






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






24. which antiarrythmic is associated with blue gray discoloration ?






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






26. What are the three top bacterial causes of acute otitis media - sinusitis - and conjuctivitis?






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






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






29. What type of calcium channels dictate the plateau in cardiac myocyte?






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






31. where are the vegetations on the valves of a libman sacks endocarditis?






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






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






34. where are the two classical places that the ulnar nerve can be injured?

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






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






37. up to what level are ciliated cells present in the pulmonary system? mucus producing cells?






38. What is medullary sponge kidney disease and how does it present? What does it lead to?






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






40. What is the primary histologic finding in patients with eczematous dermatitis?






41. What does glycosylase do to DNA? endonuclease? lyase? What does the order here of enzymes represent? what other enzymes are needed?

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42. What is the fibrinogen level in patient with TTP- HUS? DIC?






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






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






45. which congenital adrenal hyperplasia presents with all genotypes as phenotypically female and with salt retention and hypertension?






46. which nerve provides innervation for plantar flexion and inversion?






47. what defines hypoxemia?






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






49. what organ would an activating mutation in PRPP synthetase effect?






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