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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 causes wrist drop?






2. What is a clara cell?






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






4. What are three symptoms in s.typhi?






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






6. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






7. what dictates the resting membrane potential of most cells?






8. What is contraindicated in toxic mega colon?






9. What is the preferred treatment for DKA?






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






11. 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?






12. what drugs causes the red man syndrome? how does it occur?






13. What do you treat s. epidermidis with?






14. hypertonicity and hyperreflexity are ________________ of hydrocephalus






15. What is the mc manifestation of CMV in HIV patient? immunocompetent?






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






17. does congenital renal hypoplasia cause secondary hypertension? how about unilateral renal artery stenosis?






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






19. How do you calculate atributable risk percent?






20. What does VIP do to gastric acid secretion?






21. in treating an anemia and erythropoiesis results - what would you expect to see in peripheral blood findings transiently?






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






23. what Cardiac condition does the valsalva maneuver abolish? how? what muscle is most important?






24. how does eos release MBP to kill protozoa etc?






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






26. why does hypothyroidism cause increased CPK levels?






27. What almost exclusively causes Epliglottitis?What type of capsule does it have? What are the symptoms?


28. what locations of UC increase the risk of Colon cancer?






29. other than mycobacterim wha other bacteria is acid fast?






30. what happens to capacitance with age?






31. What is the most common initital symptom of ADPKD? what else?






32. which antiarrythmic is associated with blue gray discoloration ?






33. carnitine deficiency impairs production of What and how?






34. How do you explain the selective proteinuria of loss to albumin only in MCD?






35. What is the Na/Ca exchange used for?






36. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






37. when arrested in prophase of meiosis I - What are primary oocytes chrom number? What about the secondary oocytes that are stuck in metaphase of Meiosis II?






38. What is a malignant pustule? What is it usually caused by? What type of capsule does it have?






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






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






41. which virus inactivates both Rb and p53?






42. What is the only cranial nerve that comes out dorsally? What does this mean clinically?






43. What can cause virilization of a mother during pregnancy?






44. which are the only glycosylated proteins in HIV virus?






45. What is the mc location for avascular necrosis? What is it associated with?






46. How is dobutamine better than dopamine?






47. are strep pneumo bile sensitive or bile resistant? bile soluble or insoluble?






48. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






49. What is the most common location of colonization of all s. aureus types?






50. How do you calculate RPF from urine PAH?