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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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1. what nerve and artery course along the posterior aspect of the humerus?






2. Which is faster purkinje system or atrial muscle?






3. What is the neurologic manifestation of ADPKD?






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






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






6. What translocations can cause c - myc overexpression?






7. eukaryotes are often polycistronic (multiple genes per mRNA) so ____________ is linked






8. What are the two coagulase negative staphylococci? How do you distinguish them?






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






10. Where is conduction in heart fastest? slowest?






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






12. When does opening snap begin?






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






14. why does neutrophila occur with corticosteroids?






15. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






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






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






18. 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?






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






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






21. what hormone is structurally similar to hCG?






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






23. what protein is increased in Crohns disease? What does it do?






24. What antibodies are present in CREST? What is the most specific?






25. What causes alpha helical proteins in alzheimers to become insoluble and prone to aggregating?






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






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






28. What does nitroprusside do to afterload? preload?






29. What is the fibrinogen level in patient with TTP- HUS? DIC?






30. What are the common causes of metabolic alkalosis? How do you differentiate between them?






31. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






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






33. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






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






35. What is epleronone?






36. on What part of the clavicle does the SCM attach?






37. What causes vertical diplopia? horizontal?






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






39. What is the mcc of elevated AFP leves in pregnancy>






40. what marker should be followed in a patient with cirrhosis?






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






42. What is the mainstay treatment for acute mania?






43. What does TGF beta do? What produces it?






44. what clinical findings help distinguish small cell carcinoma?






45. which are the only glycosylated proteins in HIV virus?






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






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






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






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






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







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