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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 is the preferred treatment for DKA?






2. Where is aromatase used?






3. What is hyaline arteriosclerosis usually a sign of ?






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






5. What does hypocapnia cause in teh brain? What is hypocapnia?






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






7. What is the triad seen in pre eclampsia?






8. What is low levels of C1 esterase inhibitor diagnostic of? how can this be acquired?






9. how does noise induced hearing loss occur?






10. How do you explain the selective proteinuria of loss to albumin only in MCD?






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






12. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






13. What antibiotic is best to treat alcoholic pulm infections? why?






14. What is the key lab finding seen in type III serum sickness? What are some drugs that can induce it?






15. What are diastolic (lowest) pressures in aorta? LV?






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






17. What is the mcc of extrinsic allergic asthma?






18. What is epispadias caused by?






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






20. What is suggestive of complete central DI?






21. What would a deflection of the membrane potential to near zero indicate?






22. What are the common causes of metabolic alkalosis? How do you differentiate between them?






23. What are the acute effects of corticosteroids on the CBC?






24. other than proteinuria - What can cause foamy froathy urine?






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






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






27. What is a cord factor and Which bugs have it? How do they appear on culture?






28. What is the most common location of colonization of all s. aureus types?






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






30. What is the general compensatory mechanism to prevent edema is situations with increased central venous pressure?






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






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






33. What is best to prevent GBS infection in a baby?






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






35. What causes the blurry vision side effects in first generation anti histamines?






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






37. Where does conjugation of bilirubin take place?






38. What can too much IgA in serum produces?






39. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






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






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






42. What is a keloid?






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






44. What triggers the neoplastic changes that are associated with HBV infecton?






45. How do you calculate atributable risk percent?






46. What are ulcers arising in the proximal duodenum in association with severe trauma or burns called?






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






48. How do you treat gonococcal infection? chlymadia?






49. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






50. What is the best indicator for the severity of mitral stenosis?