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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the most common cause of pyelonephritis in both adults and childre?






2. What type of endocarditis is cytoscopy induced?






3. What is the general compensatory mechanism to prevent edema is situations with increased central venous pressure?






4. What is the mcc of extrinsic allergic asthma?






5. how does noise induced hearing loss occur?






6. What can cause aortic regurg? What is the heart sound you hear?






7. what composes the superior and inferior borders of the right side of the cardiac silouhette in a CXR? Where is the pulm arter?






8. what dissolves the lipid bilayer of a viral envelope?






9. 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?






10. how can HAV be inactivated?






11. lipid filled plaques in which arteries does thigh claudication suggest? difficulty sustaining an erection?






12. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






13. what happens to capacitance with age?






14. at four years of age - What are the social - fine motor - gross motor - and language developments?






15. What does NF- KB do?






16. What can nitrates lead to that is bad for angina therapy? How do you counter this?






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






18. What is the mcc of nephrotic syndrome in children and can occur in adults as wel?






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






20. When does opening snap begin?






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






22. after triglyceride metabolism - What is the fate of the glycerol? what enzyme is involved?






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






24. What is hypospadias caused by?






25. What does hypocapnia cause in teh brain? What is hypocapnia?






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






27. What do you treat s. epidermidis with?






28. What does the clinical presentation of restlessness - agitation - dysphagia - and progression to coma 30-50 days after cave exploring? hwo do you prevent?






29. What type of gene is bcl 2 ? On what chromosome is it? what chromosome is IgG heavy chain on?






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






31. in a positively skewed distribution is the mean greater than or equal to the median or the mode?






32. What is gardeners mydriasis? How is it treated?






33. Metronidizaole does not cover...






34. what immune deficiency causes recurrent neisseria infections?






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






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






37. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?






38. why does hypothyroidism cause increased CPK levels?






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






40. what hernia has a similar mechanism to hydrocele?






41. How do you treat gonococcal infection? chlymadia?






42. In what view of CXR is anterior part of heart best seen? anterior part of heart is formed by?right border of heart is formed by? left border?






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






44. What does the severity of leprosy depend on?






45. erythema nodosum - elevated ACE - scattered granulomas - arthralgias - hilar lymphadenoapthy are indicative of what?






46. What is diphenoxylate and What is it used for? what drug is it structurally similar to? What allows for potent anti diarrheal effect without signigicant opiate effects?






47. What are two common side effects of both acute and long acting nitrates? What causes them?






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






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






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