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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does the tuberoinfundibular pathway connect? What is it responsible for?






2. What can chronic vit A toxicity cause?






3. how can HAV be inactivated?






4. Where does conjugation of bilirubin take place?






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






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






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






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






9. What are the three top bacterial causes of acute otitis media - sinusitis - and conjuctivitis?






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






11. What is usually teh last gene mutation in development of a carcinoma (from an adenoma for example)?






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






13. what locations of UC increase the risk of Colon cancer?






14. What is pickwickian syndrome? What are the lab findings?






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






16. What type of endocarditis is cytoscopy induced?






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






18. What are three symptoms in s.typhi?






19. on which chromosome - and which gene - are people with sporadic and hereditary renal cell carcinomas found to have mutations?






20. which has better side effect profile - SSRI or TCA?






21. What can worse neurologic dysfunction in cobalamic def?






22. What are diastolic (lowest) pressures in aorta? LV?






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






24. who bleed more DIC or TTP- HUS patients?






25. Metronidizaole does not cover...






26. what would be a sign of absence of cardiogenic pulm edem?






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






28. What is medullary sponge kidney disease and how does it present? What does it lead to?






29. how does achalasia present? What does barium swallow show on dilated esophagus?






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






31. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






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






33. What does prolonged PT indicated? aPTT? bleeding time?






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






35. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






36. What is a major risk factor for progression ARDS? What is the pathology seen in ARDS- d/t what?






37. on which chromosome is wilms tumor found?






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






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






40. What is omalizumab and What is it used for?






41. which opponens muscle does ulnar innervate?






42. metabolism of 1 gram of protein produces How many calories? carb? fat?






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






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






45. why is there only minor blood pressure increase during exercise if sympathetic activity is high (to increase CO and HR)?






46. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






47. What is damaged in early syringomelia? later?






48. which congenital adrenal hyperplasia presents with ambiguous genitalia in females and salt retention?






49. What type of drug is atropine? what else is needed in addition to atropine when treating organophosphate poison?






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