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USMLE Step 1 Prep 2

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Shwartzman reaction (follows second exposure to endotoxin)






2. Chronic bacterial pyelo






3. Howell - Jolly bodies (due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen)






4. Alport's syndrome (type IV collagen)






5. Erb - Duchenne palsy






6. Tetralogy of Fallot - RVH






7. B symptoms or TB






8. DVT - PE - DIC - Budd - Chiari (D dimer is fibrin breakdown products)






9. Pemphigus vulgaris (blistering)






10. Mallory- Weiss syndrome (alcoholic and bulimic patients)






11. Aschoff bodies = focal myocardial inflammation with giant cells (rheumatic fever)






12. PDA






13. Endometriosis (usually bilateral)






14. Goodpasture's syndome (glomerulonephritis and hemoptysis)






15. Vasculitis (c - ANCA = Wegener's - p - ANCA = microscopic polyangiitis or Churg - Strauss syndrome)






16. Sheehan's syndrome






17. Paget's






18. Marfan's (fibrillin defect)






19. Actinomyces israelii






20. Squamous cell carcinoma






21. Reed - Sternberg cells (Hodgkin's lymphoma)


22. Ancylostoma - Necator (hook worms)






23. Blue bloater (chronic bronchitis)






24. Rouleax formation (high ESR - multiple myeloma)






25. Cold agglutinin disease (autoimmune from Mp or mono - from IgM)






26. Guillain - Barre syndrome






27. Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis






28. Koplick spots (measles)






29. Pellagra (B3 / niacin deficiency)






30. Chediak - Higashi disease (congenital failure of phagolysosome formation)






31. Turner syndrome (X0 - short stature - webbed neck - lymphedema)






32. Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis


33. Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia






34. Gout/podagra (hyperuricemia)






35. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (C' mediated damage - lack of CD55/59)






36. Bronchial asthma (Charcot - Leyden crystals: eosinophilic granules)






37. SLE (type III hypersensitivity)






38. Kayser - Fleischer rings (copper accumulation from Wilson's disease)






39. Auer rods (AML - esp promyelocytic type)






40. Von Hippel - Lindau diease






41. Duchenne's muscular dystrophy






42. Signet ring (gastric carcinoma)






43. Enterobius






44. Celiac (diarrhea - distention - weight loss)






45. Peutz - Jeghers syndrome






46. Measles






47. Paget's disease of the breast






48. Drug - induced SLE (hydralazine - isoniazid - phenytoin - procainamide)






49. Job's syndrome






50. Pick bodies