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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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1. hemaglobin and hematocrit levels cannot __________ between relative and absolute erythrocytosis






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

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3. Where does conjugation of bilirubin take place?






4. What is the triad seen in pre eclampsia?






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






6. What are the three causes of acute MI in context of normal coronary arteries ?






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






8. What does nitroprusside do to afterload? preload?






9. after a thrombus extraction - what serum enzyme shoots up and why?






10. why is glucagon used in beta blocker toxicitiy?






11. where are neurons lost in huntingtons disease? What are two mc presenting symptoms?






12. What is the mcc of extrinsic allergic asthma?






13. what color pigmentations are caused by malassezia furfur? when do they become more visible?






14. Which is slower AV node or ventricular muscle?






15. Would alpha 1 agonists cause flushing? muscarinic antagonist?






16. What is extraocular muscle weakness a common symptom of?






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






18. which antiarrythmic is associated with blue gray discoloration ?






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






20. how can HAV be inactivated?






21. why does neutrophila occur with corticosteroids?






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






23. what hernia has a similar mechanism to hydrocele?






24. What can long term leg cast wearing cause?






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






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






27. within the right atrium - What is the maximum pressure? left atrium?






28. what provides some cutaneous sensation to the posterior external auditory canal? What can happen if pressure is put there?






29. at three years of age What are social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






30. When is acid phosphatase elevated (Name two times)?






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






32. What is the most common cause of hydatid cysts in humans? What does spilling of cysts cause?






33. 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?






34. prostaglandin synthesis keeps...






35. How do you calculate atributable risk percent?






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






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






38. which cells produce surfactant? which ones mediate gas exchange?






39. which artery provides the majority of the blood supply to the head and neck of the femur? what happens in fracture of neck?






40. What are the first generation anti histamines?






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






42. do patients with cor pulmonale have increased or decreased levels of aldosterone?






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






44. what clinical findings help distinguish small cell carcinoma?






45. What test would be best to determine if a gene is being transcribed? translated?






46. When does dysplasia become a carcinoma - in other words When does it nonreversible? What is high grade dysplasia synonymous with?






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






48. on which chromosome is wilms tumor found?






49. why are beta thal major patients asymptomatic at birth?






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







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