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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. Where is high frequency sound best recepted? low frequency sound? Which is lost more in elderly?






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






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






4. What effects does cortisol have on catecholamines?






5. What is it called if psychotic symptoms last less than one month? one to six months? more than six months?






6. What is a cardiac cause of head pounding with exertion and nocturnal palpitations? What can cause this?






7. What can chronic vit A toxicity cause?






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






9. What is contraindicated in toxic mega colon?






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






11. when do ghon complexes form - primary or secondary TB?






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






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






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






15. What does 'oxygen' content in blood refer to?






16. SIADH patients have normal blood volume but...






17. What type of calcium channels dictate the plateau in cardiac myocyte?






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






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






20. What are the two pharmacologic antagonists that offer clear benefit in allergic asthma?






21. What is the presentation of angioedema? Where is most commonly affected?






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






23. on which chromosome is wilms tumor found?






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






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






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






27. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






28. Increase in lung cancer incidence and mortality has been observed in _____ over last four decades






29. Where does terminal peptide cleavage of collagen fibrils take place?






30. Acyl coA synthetase is not...






31. which nucleus releases serotonin?






32. a patient fearing all white coats is a phenomenon of what?






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






34. Which is faster atrial muscle or ventricular muscle?






35. What is the stabilizing force for the secondary structure of proteins?






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






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






38. h1 receptor anatagonists are not effective in treatment of asthma only for...






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






40. What are examples of action that decrease venous return to the heart?






41. What does C1 esterase do other than inhibiting complement pathway?






42. What are some of the permissive effects of cortisol?






43. What causes congenital QT prolongation syndrome? What is death caused by? in one of the syndromes - What is a common other symptom?






44. How do you calculate excretion rate of a substance? How do you calculate the filtration rate of a substance? clearance of what substance estimates the GFR?






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






46. What is the mcc of cystitis and and acute pyelonephritis? mcc of UTI in sexually active women?






47. Which nerve lies in close proximity to the inferior thyroid artery?






48. What actions increase venous return?






49. How do you calculate RPF from urine PAH?






50. what bursa is affected when on knees like a maid/gardner?