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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is intussusception? how does ischemia and necrosis occur?






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






3. How do left sided colon adenocarcinomas present? right sided?






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






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






6. which antiarrythmic is associated with blue gray discoloration ?






7. What is cataplexy and When is it seen?






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






9. What is the most important prognostic indicator in patients with malignant melanoma?






10. What actions increase venous return?






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






12. What is used to compare means? categorical outcomes?






13. what drugs causes the red man syndrome? how does it occur?






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






15. what should you think of with coarctation of aorta - bicuspid valves and horseshoe kidney?






16. what kind of drug is sertraline? What is a common side effect?






17. why are pregnant predisposed to cholelithiasis?






18. which viruses require a protease?






19. What is a primary HSV 1 infection like?






20. do Class IC agents prolong the QT interval?






21. IL4 is used for isotypye switching to what?






22. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






23. what enzyme converts procarcinogens into carcinogens?






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






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






26. What are pancreatic pseudocysts called pseudo rather than true cysts?






27. What causes release of myosin head from the actin filament?






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






29. where are the vegetations on the valves of a libman sacks endocarditis?






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






31. how much percent of sodium is excreted? urea? glucose?






32. What can differentiate between relative and absolute erythrocytosis? What can distinguish between primary and secondary erythrocytosis (both absolute mind you)?






33. What is the preferred treatment for DKA?






34. What does the severity of leprosy depend on?






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






36. What are three symptoms in s.typhi?






37. what happens to the cell body of a neuron after the axon has been severed? What is this called? What is it second to?






38. Which branch of the facial nerve provides taste from ant 2/3 of tongue?






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






40. What does protein M do in Group A strep<






41. What do you treat s. epidermidis with?






42. What is the mcc of extrinsic allergic asthma?






43. there are mucus secreting cells in the bronchioles...






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






45. in a positively skewed distribution is the mean greater than or equal to the median or the mode?






46. Metronidizaole does not cover...






47. Where is conduction in heart fastest? slowest?






48. What causes wrist drop?






49. sporadic colon cancer tend to arise From what type of polyps?






50. facial pain and headache in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis is highly suggestive of what? How do you diagnose? What is a char finding?