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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is dobutamine? What is it used for?how it is it most helpful? What is bad about it?






2. What is the only catecholamine that is made in only one place? where? By what enzyme? controlled by what?






3. What is the presentation of angioedema? Where is most commonly affected?






4. What is damaged in early syringomelia? later?






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






6. Where does complement bind on the Fc region of Ig chains?






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






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






9. which viruses require a protease?






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






11. What are the first line agents used in acute gouty arthritis? why not use colchicine? when would you use glucocorticoids?






12. Where is conduction in heart fastest? slowest?






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






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






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






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






17. what happens to capacitance with age?






18. What is a side effect of ACE inhibitor that is more worrisome in patients with renal failure?who else is it worrisome in?






19. how does neisseria cause a petechial rash?






20. what happens to PaO2 - % sat - and O2 content in: Anemia - polycythemia - CO poisoning?






21. other than parvo B19 - what else is associated with red cell aplasia?






22. What is epispadias caused by?






23. When does dysplasia become a carcinoma - in other words When does it nonreversible? What is high grade dysplasia synonymous with?






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






25. prostaglandin synthesis keeps...






26. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






27. What is the preferred treatment for DKA?






28. What is the diagnosis in a patient with bilateral upper extremity hyporeflexia and bilateral lower extremity hyperreflexia?






29. Where does vasopressin act - on the medullary or cortical segment of collecting tubule?






30. a patient fearing all white coats is a phenomenon of what?






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






32. Which is faster atrial muscle or ventricular muscle?






33. What are the three top bacterial causes of acute otitis media - sinusitis - and conjuctivitis?






34. What actions increase venous return?






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






36. What is hypospadias caused by?






37. What is pickwickian syndrome? What are the lab findings?






38. Where does the aorta lie in relation to the pulmonary artery in transposition of the great arteries (is this right to left or left to right shunt?)?






39. what clinical findings help distinguish small cell carcinoma?






40. What is a major risk factor for progression ARDS? What is the pathology seen in ARDS- d/t what?






41. What is a cord factor and Which bugs have it? How do they appear on culture?






42. What does the tuberoinfundibular pathway connect? What is it responsible for?






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






44. what immune deficiency causes recurrent neisseria infections?






45. Which is slower AV node or ventricular muscle?






46. What are some side effects seen in TCAs?






47. which cells produce surfactant? which ones mediate gas exchange?






48. metabolism of 1 gram of protein produces How many calories? carb? fat?






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






50. What is the most common congenital adrenal hyperplasia? What does the enzyme convert What to what? and What is the presentation?