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






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






3. Where is high frequency sound best recepted? low frequency sound? Which is lost more in elderly?






4. How do left sided colon adenocarcinomas present? right sided?






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






6. what has the greatest effect on prognosis when treating c. diptheriae?






7. what makes bruits?






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






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






10. What is used to prevent vertical transmission of HIV?






11. Where is the base of the heart? apex?






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






13. Which is slower AV node or ventricular muscle?






14. What causes release of myosin head from the actin filament?






15. What three pathogens cause infectious esophagitis in HIV positive patients?






16. What does sustained hand grip do to the C/V system?






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






18. what phase do adenosine and acetylcholine act on? doing what?






19. What is the neurologic manifestation of ADPKD?






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






21. which virus inactivates both Rb and p53?






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






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






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






25. What pulmonary structural change can kartageners syndrome cause?






26. which staphylococci can do mannitol fermaentation?






27. in B12 deficiency - what levels in blood rise very quickly and then drop?






28. what murmur is enhanced by decreased blood flow to the heart?






29. how will ectopic pregnancy rupture present? What is key history question for diagnosis? what would a uterine biopsy show?






30. What is the mainstay treatment for acute mania?






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






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






33. why is glucagon used in beta blocker toxicitiy?






34. What is hypospadias caused by?






35. what color pigmentations are caused by malassezia furfur? when do they become more visible?






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






37. Which nerve lies in close proximity to the inferior thyroid artery?






38. which anti epileptic is preferred in patients with both absence and tonic clonic seizures?






39. Would alpha 1 agonists cause flushing? muscarinic antagonist?






40. What does p53 do? what chrom is it on?






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






42. where are neurons lost in huntingtons disease? What are two mc presenting symptoms?






43. What is the primary histologic finding in patients with eczematous dermatitis?






44. What are the three predominant symptoms of VHL? What is its mode of inheritance?






45. prostaglandin synthesis keeps...






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






47. how much percent of sodium is excreted? urea? glucose?






48. why should you not use ACE inhibitors with someone who had hereditary angioedema?






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






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