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






2. what increases turbulence and thus causes bruits? (specifically in terms of viscosity and velocity)






3. Where does vasopressin act - on the medullary or cortical segment of collecting tubule?






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






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






6. What is subacute sclerosisng encephalitis caused by?






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






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






9. Metronidizaole does not cover...






10. what disease causes hypoxia induced hemolysis? oxidant induced hemolysis?






11. What is used to compare means? categorical outcomes?






12. Where does conjugation of bilirubin take place?






13. which nerve in the lower leg is easily injured and causes foot drop ? What are common causes? From what nerve does it branch off or?






14. What is the sole neurologic manifestation of acute rheumatic fever?






15. what happens to PaO2 - % sat - and O2 content in: Anemia - polycythemia - CO poisoning?






16. How is dobutamine better than dopamine?






17. Where does vit C act in the hydroxylation of lysine residues for collagen? What is the cofactor required?






18. what protects the resting heart from arrhythmias?






19. What is an abortive viral infection?






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






21. Acyl coA synthetase is not...






22. neisseria are...






23. What is the most common cause of pyelonephritis in both adults and childre?






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






25. What is intussusception? how does ischemia and necrosis occur?






26. is strep pneumo optochin resistant or susceptible? bile soluble or insoluble?






27. how can HAV be inactivated?






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






29. What are the long term consequences of hydrocephalus?






30. How can renal blood flow be calculated from RPF?






31. When does neovascularization granulation tissue begin to form after severe ischemia and MI? what happens in 12-24 hours? 2 weeks to 2 months? 1-5 days? 0-4 hours? when do you see edema - hemorrhage - wavy fibers?






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






33. What is a keloid?






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






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






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






37. What does phosphoglycerate mutase produce? In what process - instead of what? what cells used this and why?






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






39. What is a limiting factor when initiating ACE inhibitors? hwo do you prevent a really bad reaction?






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






41. What does the inferior gluteal nerve innervate? how does damage to this nerve manifest?






42. how does neisseria cause a petechial rash?






43. What does NF- KB do?






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






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






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






47. What is mcc of death pre hospital phase of MI? in hospital phase?






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






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






50. What torch causes an intrapartum infection (as opposed to the rest which are in utero)?