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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. facial pain and headache in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis is highly suggestive of what? How do you diagnose? What is a char finding?






2. IL4 is used for isotypye switching to what?






3. What can long term leg cast wearing cause?






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






5. What is the mainstay treatment for acute mania?






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






7. what happens to PaO2 - % sat - and O2 content in: Anemia - polycythemia - CO poisoning?






8. What are some of the permissive effects of cortisol?






9. What does C1 esterase do other than inhibiting complement pathway?






10. In What type of nephritis would you see high serum eos count?






11. In what population does cholelithiasis occur?






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






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






14. what increases turbulence and thus causes bruits? (specifically in terms of viscosity and velocity)






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






16. What is tachyphylaxis?






17. What causes wrist drop?






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






19. What aa is NAD+ coenyzme synthesized endogenously from? What does def cause?






20. What is the cause of fixed splitting of S2? why?






21. What is the presentation of angioedema? Where is most commonly affected?






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






23. which congenital hyperbilirubinemia actually presents with serious symptoms? which are less serious/






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






25. What is congestive hepatomegaly specific for?






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






27. What is the mcc of nephrotic syndrome in children and can occur in adults as wel?






28. What are examples of action that decrease venous return to the heart?






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






30. What does the superior gluteal nerve innervate? how does damage to this nerve manifest?






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






32. what virus causes pharyngoconjuctival fever?






33. When does neovascularization granulation tissue begin to form after severe ischemia and MI? what happens in 12-24 hours? 2 weeks to 2 months? 1-5 days? 0-4 hours? when do you see edema - hemorrhage - wavy fibers?






34. What is the neurologic manifestation of ADPKD?






35. What is the mcc of asymmetric inflammatory arthiritis of the lower extremities in young men? what HLA association?






36. what immune deficiency causes recurrent neisseria infections?






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






38. What is capacitance inversely proportional to?






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






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






41. What are the two mcc of focal brain lesions in HIV positive patients?






42. What does the tuberoinfundibular pathway connect? What is it responsible for?






43. which headaches are seen mostly in men - are severe - unilateral - periorbital - episodic (around same time every day) - temporal pain - with lacrimation - nasal congestion and ptosis?






44. what protein is increased in Crohns disease? What does it do?






45. what phase do adenosine and acetylcholine act on? doing what?






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






47. What effects does cortisol have on catecholamines?






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






49. 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?)?






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