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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. Would alpha 1 agonists cause flushing? muscarinic antagonist?






2. What translocations can cause c - myc overexpression?






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






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






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






6. What is dobutamine? What is it used for?how it is it most helpful? What is bad about it?






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






8. why are pregnant predisposed to cholelithiasis?






9. is Rifampin ever used as monotherapY? why either way?






10. Where is aromatase used?






11. on which chromosome is wilms tumor found?






12. What does anti phospholipid syndrome in SLE patients predispose them to?






13. What is somatomedin C?






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






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






16. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






17. What is the mc location for avascular necrosis? What is it associated with?






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






19. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?






20. how does increased ICP result in curlings ulcers?






21. What are the lab findings in poststreptococcal GN?






22. What is a malignant pustule? What is it usually caused by? What type of capsule does it have?






23. What is achalasia and how would this correlate on the esophageal mannometry?






24. What are the first line agents used in acute gouty arthritis? why not use colchicine? when would you use glucocorticoids?






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






26. What is hypospadias caused by?






27. What three pathogens cause infectious esophagitis in HIV positive patients?






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






29. What agonists reduce the gradient across the LV outflow tract?






30. why does hypothyroidism cause increased CPK levels?






31. what diseases can vit A be used to treat?






32. Which is faster purkinje system or atrial muscle?






33. What is the most common congenital adrenal hyperplasia? What does the enzyme convert What to what? and What is the presentation?






34. 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?






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






36. what receptors do first generation anti histamines block?






37. What is damaged in early syringomelia? later?






38. what stimulates bicarb secretion from the pancreas? Where is this hormone produced?






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






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






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






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






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






44. What are the three dopaminergic systems and What are they responsible for? disease?






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






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






47. biotin is used By what in tissues responsible for gluconeogenesis






48. what has the greatest effect on prognosis when treating c. diptheriae?






49. what clinical findings help distinguish small cell carcinoma?






50. What type of cancer is keratin swirls indicative of ? What is the prognosis of this cancer in the esophagus? What is it associated with?