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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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1. What is the difference between paranoid personality disorder and delusional disorder?






2. Axillary lymph node dissection is a risk factor for the development of chronic lymphedema of the ipsilateral arm. What does chronic lymphedema predispose to?






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






4. What is difference between Arnold Chiari type I and II?






5. What is cataplexy and When is it seen?






6. What does p53 do? what chrom is it on?






7. how can HAV be inactivated?






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






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






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






11. what happens to sperm count and semineferous tubules in patient with cryptoorchidism? hormonal function? why do they need to be surgically descended?






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






13. What is somatomedin C?






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






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






16. what makes bruits?






17. what Cardiac condition does the valsalva maneuver abolish? how? what muscle is most important?






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

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






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






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






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






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






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






25. what enzymes is lipoic acid a cofactor for? What does a mutation in it result in?






26. integrin mediated adhesion of cells to ECM (and BM) involves integrin binding to what?






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






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






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






30. What is the triad seen in pre eclampsia?






31. what defines hypoxemia?






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






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






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






35. do Class IC agents prolong the QT interval?






36. What do you treat s. epidermidis with?






37. which anti epileptic is preferred in patients with both absence and tonic clonic seizures?






38. why does neutrophila occur with corticosteroids?






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






40. How can renal blood flow be calculated from RPF?






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






42. Where does vasopressin act - on the medullary or cortical segment of collecting tubule?






43. What is the precursor protein to beta amyloid and On what chromosome is it found?






44. which opponens muscle does ulnar innervate?






45. What does L/S stand for in fetal lung maturity? When does maturity occur?






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






47. 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?






48. What is Bortezomib and What is it used for?






49. What is a keloid?






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