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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. why is glucagon used in beta blocker toxicitiy?






2. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






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






4. why does variocele occur more in left side?






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






6. what virus causes pharyngoconjuctival fever?






7. What is the immune deficinecy seen in ataxia telangactasia?






8. if there are keratin swirls does that mean well or poorly differentiated?






9. Metronidizaole does not cover...






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






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






12. What is hypospadias caused by?






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






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






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






16. how can HAV be inactivated?






17. which congenital adrenal hyperplasia presents with all genotypes as phenotypically female and with salt retention and hypertension?






18. prostaglandin synthesis keeps...






19. What is cataplexy and When is it seen?






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






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






22. What is the most common neurologic complication of VZV reactivation?






23. What is the mc outcome of a patient acutely infected with Hep C? 2nd mc?






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






25. In What type of nephritis would you see high serum eos count?






26. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






27. What causes wrist drop?






28. which nerve is at risk when ligating the superior thyroid artery? Which is the only muscle this nerve innervates? what nerve innervates all the other laryngeal muscles?






29. What is the diagnosis in delayed puberty plus anosmia?






30. hemaglobin and hematocrit levels cannot __________ between relative and absolute erythrocytosis






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






32. What is capacitance inversely proportional to?






33. Acyl coA synthetase is not...






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






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






36. What is capsaicin? Where does it work?






37. How do you calculate atributable risk percent?






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






39. What is the primary histologic finding in patients with eczematous dermatitis?






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






41. which nerve provides innervation for plantar flexion and inversion?






42. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






43. What type of disease has selective proteinuria? What is found in urine? What is not?






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






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






46. 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?






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






48. Where does the aorta lie in relation to the pulmonary artery in transposition of the great arteries (is this right to left or left to right shunt?)?






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






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