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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 mc location for avascular necrosis? What is it associated with?






2. why does liver dysfunction cause coagulation disorders?






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






4. What is the mcc of elevated AFP leves in pregnancy>






5. What does the severity of leprosy depend on?






6. What are the two growth factors associated with angiogenesis?






7. What is Tzanck smear used to detect?






8. What does the superior gluteal nerve innervate? how does damage to this nerve manifest?






9. What are biphosphanate drugs structurally similar to? What are they used in the treatment of?






10. what provides some cutaneous sensation to the posterior external auditory canal? What can happen if pressure is put there?






11. What does prolonged PT indicated? aPTT? bleeding time?






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






13. what receptors do first generation anti histamines block?






14. What can too much IgA in serum produces?






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






16. What is the mc malignancy in asbestosis?






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






18. in overweight individuals What is thought to contribute to insulin resistance?






19. What causes alpha helical proteins in alzheimers to become insoluble and prone to aggregating?






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






21. What does nitroprusside do to afterload? preload?






22. which two virus families have hemagluttinin on their surface?






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






24. what hormone is structurally similar to hCG?






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






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






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






28. why does variocele occur more in left side?






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






30. What agonists reduce the gradient across the LV outflow tract?






31. What do you treat s. epidermidis with?






32. What is dobutamine? What is it used for?how it is it most helpful? What is bad about it?






33. When is acid phosphatase elevated (Name two times)?






34. What is the key lab finding seen in type III serum sickness? What are some drugs that can induce it?






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






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






37. What type of vision is myopia? In What type of patients does it improve?






38. What is the presentation of sever aortic stenosis?






39. How do you calculate atributable risk percent?






40. What is achalasia and how would this correlate on the esophageal mannometry?






41. What are the primary determinants of colon cancer risk in UC patients






42. What are some side effects seen in TCAs?






43. what pathology is found around the illeo cecal valve and presents in 2 year old children with colicky abdominal pain and currant jelly stools?






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






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






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. Which is faster purkinje system or atrial muscle?






48. What would a deflection of the membrane potential to near zero indicate?






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






50. which nucleus releases serotonin?