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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. What is the mcc of cystitis and and acute pyelonephritis? mcc of UTI in sexually active women?






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

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3. hypertensive crises on food intake is typical of What antidepressant? what kind of food?






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






5. What is hyaline arteriosclerosis usually a sign of ?






6. What does 'oxygen' content in blood refer to?






7. What is a clara cell?






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






9. What is a primary HSV 1 infection like?






10. What is a cell surface marker seen in liver angiosarcoma?






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






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






13. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






14. Where does complement bind on the Fc region of Ig chains?






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






16. What can inhaled anesthetics (like halothane) cause post operatively? what virus does it immitate? What are the presenting symptoms?






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






18. what commonly happens in GI in response to acute physiologic stress?






19. what makes bruits?






20. other than in pyelonephritis - where else are WBC casts seen?






21. What is it called when you see double vision when walking down stairs or looking at nose or reading newspaper?






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






23. which staphylococci can do mannitol fermaentation?






24. hypertonicity and hyperreflexity are ________________ of hydrocephalus






25. What three things can reduce the risk of non hereditary ovarian and endometrial cancer?






26. what presents congenitally as macroglossia - generalized hypotonia - and an umbilical hernia?






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






28. carnitine deficiency impairs production of What and how?






29. what enzyme converts procarcinogens into carcinogens?






30. When does opening snap begin?






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






32. What is tachyphylaxis?






33. a patient fearing all white coats is a phenomenon of what?






34. What does extended consumption of appetite suppressants lead to?






35. why does neutrophila occur with corticosteroids?






36. In what form are mitochondrial DNA? What do they transcribe?






37. how does neisseria cause a petechial rash?






38. non ceruloplasmin deposition - ceruloplasmin is...






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






40. in the fluid running along the PT - what happens to PAH - inulin - urea - creatinine? how about glucose - aa - bicarb?






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






42. what murmur is enhanced by decreased blood flow to the heart?






43. What are the three presentations of ataxia telangectasia? What does the mutation cause? What is the mode of inheritance?






44. What type of drug is alendronate?






45. What type of endocarditis is cytoscopy induced?






46. 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?






47. what defines hypoxemia?






48. What is the mc outcome of a patient acutely infected with Hep C? 2nd mc?






49. What is the Na/Ca exchange used for?






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