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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 are the potassium sparing diuretics?






2. When is an S4 sound normal?






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






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






5. What type of endocarditis is cytoscopy induced?






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






7. What is tachyphylaxis?






8. What is the difference between paranoid personality disorder and delusional disorder?






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






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






11. What do you treat s. epidermidis with?






12. Which is faster atrial muscle or ventricular muscle?






13. How do bradykinin - C3a and C5a cause edema?






14. what nerve and artery course along the posterior aspect of the humerus?






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






16. within the right ventricle - What are maximum pressures? the pulm arter?






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






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






19. Where is conduction in heart fastest? slowest?






20. What is the mc malignancy in asbestosis?






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






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






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






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






25. which type of glands produce an initially odorless secretion but can become malodorous secondary to bacterial decompisition on the skin surface? which glands are present throughout the skin except on lips and glans penis?






26. why does liver dysfunction cause coagulation disorders?






27. What is suggestive of complete central DI?






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






29. What are the three dopaminergic systems and What are they responsible for? disease?






30. hypertonicity and hyperreflexity are ________________ of hydrocephalus






31. What is the precursor protein to beta amyloid and On what chromosome is it found?






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






33. what happens with LDL receptor density in statin therapy?






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






35. which RPGN is also called pauci immune GN? why?






36. What is a clara cell?






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






38. Where does 90% of serotonin lie? What is this NT responsible?






39. nucleotide deletions do not cause missense mutations - they cause...






40. 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?






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






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






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






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






45. Axillary lymph node dissection is a risk factor for the development of chronic lymphedema of the ipsilateral arm. What does chronic lymphedema predispose to?






46. What is the neurologic manifestation of ADPKD?






47. What is damaged in early syringomelia? later?






48. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






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






50. What type of drug is atropine? what else is needed in addition to atropine when treating organophosphate poison?