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1) The following are autosomal recessive disorders...

a) Deafness

Albinism

c) 's Disease

d) Sickle cell anemia

e) All of the Above

2) Ascorbic Acid deficiency is?

a) Otherwise known as scurvy

cured by drinking Orange Juice

c) found in areas of urban population

d) May cause hemorrhage into the periosteum of the long bones

e) All of the above

3) Cancer of the prostate is is not diagnosed by

a) Palpation of the prostate gland

Imaging

c) Biopsy

d) Deep Venous Thrombosis

e) Rectal examination of soft, pliable prostate mass

4) The most common Metabolic Emergency?

(a) Hypercalcemia

( Respiratory alkalosis

© Metabolic acidosis

(d) Hyperpotasemia

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5) The term Polycythemia signifies:

a) An increase above normal in the number of red blood cells in the circulating

blood

Increase of all blood cells in the bloodstream

c) Sojourn of high altitudes

d) Mongels disease

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6) Cyanosis refers to?

a) The result of reduced hemoglobin

Is a bluish color of the skin and

mucous membranes

c) Comes from increased cyanide

d) May not be detected until arterial

saturation has declined to 75%

7) Sarcoidosis may involve?

a) Upper respiratory tract

Liver

c) Spleen

d) Eye

e) All of the Above

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8) Common signs and symptoms of blood loss are...

a) Restlessness

Anxiety

c) Syncope on sitting

d) Fever

e) Kidney Failure

9) Associated with Aplastic Anemia are the following?

a) Aspirin

Sulfonamides

c) Sedatives

d) Progesterone

e) Antihistamines

f) All of the above

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10) West Nile Virus is transmitted among wild birds by?

a) Culex Mosquitoes

Tick

c) Tse-tse fly

d) Aedes Mosquitoes

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2) No

3) Not Sure

11) Left to right shunts are seen in?

a) Patent ductus arteriosus

Ventricular septal defects

c) Aortic root to right heart shunts

d) Atrial Septal Defect

12) A leading cause of blindness in the U.S. is

a) Cotton-wood exudates

Macular edema

c) Diabetes mellitus

d) Increase in vascular permeability

e) Photocoagulation

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13) Diabetes mellitus is due to

a) Increased galactose

Increased fructose

c) Increased glucose

d) Increased lactose

14) Major causes of fasting hypoglycemia are

a) Adrenal insufficiency

Starvation

c) Liver disease

d) Alcoholism

e) Underutilization of insulin

f) Muscle wasting

15) The drugs used for the treatment of Sleeping Sickness are?

a) Saranin

Pentamidine

c) Mellaril

d) eflornithine

16) Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by

a) Toxiplasma analoride

Toxiplasma leishmania

c) Toxiplasma gondii

d) Toxiplasma cruzi

17) Raynaud's phenomenon is frequented in

a) Only in infrequent episodes

Acrocyanosis

c) Frostbite

d) Chilblains

e) Erythromelalgia

18) Paget's Disease of Bone

a)Has unknown cause

b)The skull is most commonly involved

c)Significant radiology findings

d)The pelvic bones are rarely involved

e)The lytic phase occurs in skull as osteoporosis circumscripta

19) Lupus erythematous is

a) Solely a skin disease

An Autoimmune disease

c) The same as Morphea

d) Survival rate is 100% at 2 years

20) Rheumatoid arthritis indicates

a) A genetic predisposition

Acute polyarthritis

c) No extraarticular manifestations

d) No plenopulmonary manifestations

21) Thyroid Disease

a) Is determined by Somatastatin

TSH

c) Hyperpituitary disease

d) Peripheral resistance to thyroid hormone

22) 's Disease is marked by

a) Excess cortisol

Excessive pigmentation of skin

c) Inability to hold onto salt

d) Crisis-like situations

23) Hyperelasticity of the skin and hypermobile Joints is known as?

a) chondroplasias

Marfan Syndrome

c) Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

d) Epidermolysis Bulloea

e) Stickler Syndrome

24) Pernicious Anemia

a) Results from cobalmin deficiency

is characterized by neurological manifestations

c) Reveals a smooth and beefy red tongue

d) is mostly seen in individuals of Northern European descent

e) all of the above

25) Endocarditis should be suspected in patients with

a) a heart murmur and unexplained fever

positive blood cultures

c) appearance of staphylococci in blood culture

d) appearance of gonococemia

e) all of the above

26) Cor Pulmonale is characterized by

a) Obstructive Lung Disease

Left Ventricular failure

c) Pulmonary hypertension

d) Breathlessness

e) All of the above

27) Renal insult may reveal itself in

a) Hyperkalemia

Hypernatremia

c) Hypercalcemia

d) Hypophosphatemia

28) Drugs used for angina pectoris include

a) Nitrates

Beta-adrenoceptor blocking agents

c) Calcium channel blocking agents

d) Digitalis

e) Digitoxin

29) Hyperuricosuria is due to

a) Excessive intake of sweets

Excessive intake of meat, fish and poultry

c) Hyperoxaluria

d) Hypercitraturia

30) Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome consists of

a) Neo-beta islet cell tumors of the pancreas

Also known as gastrinomas

c) Pancreatic islet cell hyperplasia does not occur in such patients

d) Small multicentric carcinoid tumors have been identified in the gastric

mucosa of such patients

31) Wegener's granulomatosis is characterized by

a) Extreme predominance in African Americans

At less than 10 years of age

c) Has nasal involvement

d) Has eye involvement

32) Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

a) Is the same as Amyotropic Lateral Dystrophy

Has it's onset in childhood

c) Does not effect cardiac conduction defects

d) Is the same as Fascioscapulohumeral dystrophy

33) Smokers have

a) More propensity for drinking alcohol

Earlier menopause in women

c) Have no association with greater occurrence of atherosclerotic disease

d) No relation to depression

34) Hemochromatosis may be

a) Genetic

Secondary Iron Load

c) An expression of Blood Donation

d) An autosomal recessive disorder

e) All of the above

35) Porphyria

a) Inherited disorder of specific enzymes in the heme biosynthetic pathway

An acquired disorder of the heme biosynthetic pathway

c) Major manifestation is abdominal pain

d) There is no neurological asset of the disease

e) Castaneous sensitivity occurs from longwave ultraviolet ray

36) Cystic Fibrosis is

a) First seen in adults

Of a life span of past 40

c) Characterized by chronic airway destruction

d) Bronchlectatic involvement

e) All of the above

37) Uremia

a) Is a result of protein and amino acid metabolism

End products of nucleic acid metabolism

c) End products of tryptophran and tyrosine

d) Results in " Uremic Frost "

e) All of the above

38) Oliguria can lead to

a) Hypokalemia

Ominous effects on cardiac function

c) Metabolic acidosis

d) Death

e) All of the above

39) Hypercalcemia of Malignancy is responsible for

a) 10% of all of all hypercalcemia

15% of all of all hypercalcemia

c) 40% of all of all hypercalcemia

d) 80% of all of all hypercalcemia

40) Fever of unknown origin

a) May be due to drugs

May be caused by malignancies

c) Are not diagnosable by bone marrow cultures

d) May not be due to mycobacterias and fungi

41) Staphylococci

a) Are the leading cause of bacteremia

Are Anarobic

c) Are coagulase negative

d) Are always coagulase positive

42) Taenia solium

a) Is found in muscle

Is restricted to the U.S.A.

c) Has as its parasite stage ova

d) Is best diagnosed with MRI

43) Abnormalities in liver function are shown by

a) AST and ALT

Prothrombin time

c) A/G ratio

d) Alkaline phosphatase

e) all of the above

44) Septic shock occurs when

a) Failure of counteracting control mechanisms are present

Hypotension occurs

c) When early sepsis is not countered

d) When infection in bloodstream occurs

45) Most common infections caused by Streptococcus pneumonia are

a) Acute sinusitis

Pneumonia

c) Brain abscess

d) Empyema

46) V. cholera is readily diagnosed

a) Late in the coarse of the disease

Has a high mortality rate

c) Combated by oral fluids

d) Easily diagnosed from V. minimus by its ability to ferment sucrose

47) Heart failure is diagnosed when

a) Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea occurs

Rales are present

c) Sr gallop is present

d) Positive hepatojugular reflux is present

48) Maglignant Hypertcusion is treated

a) Early by nitroprusside IV

Early with Nifetidine SL

c) Immediately with diazoxide IV bolus

d) Late with diazoxide

49) Pneumothorax is

a) The Presence of gas in the pleural space

It may be spontaneous

c) It may be traumatic

d) It may be primary in the presence of lung disease

50) The most common mass in the anterior mediastinum is

a) Lymph node enlargement from metastases

A nuerogenic tumor

c) Bronchogenic cyst

d) Thymoma

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51) Histoblamosis

a) Is the most common disease of aids

Is most frequent in Puerto Rico

c) Is also frequent in the Dominican Republic

d) Is frequently found in Philadelphia

52) Penicillium marneffi infection is a complication of

a) Pneumonia

HIV infection

c) coccidiomycosis

d) Histoblasmosis

53) Kaposis Sarcoma is

a) Prominent in Aids only

Four times more common in women who have relations with bisexual men

c) Is invasive

d) Is common in homosexual men

54) Thyrotoxicosis

a) Leads to atrial irritability

Leads to decreased cardiac output

c) Leads to Atrial flutter

d) Leads to rapid circulation time

55) Thyroid Storm is characterized by

a) Delirium or coma

Hypertension

c) Restfulness

d) Fever

56) Chronic Ateriosclerotic Occlusive Disease

a) Usually involves the distal abdominal aorta

Involves claudication of lower back alone

c) Results in atropic skin loss

d) Rubor on dependency occurs

57) Takayasu's arteritis

a) Is also termed pulseless disease

Is most prevalent in young Asian males

c) Elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate is not present

d) Prognosis is excellent

58) Rheumatoid Arthritis is

a) A chronic multisytemic disease

Of unknown cause

c) Begins insidiously with fatigue anorexia, generalized weakness

d) Median Life expectancy is shortened by 1 to 2 years

59) Pancreatic Cancer has

a) Decreased in incidence in the U.S.

Increased in incidence in the U.S.

c) Cigarette smoking is the most commonly observed risk factor

d) Alcohol abuse is also a known factor in occurrence

e) Coffee is also a culprit

60) Plasma Cell Disorders are the following

a) Multiple Myeloma

Waldenstrome's macrog Maulinemia

c) Poems Syndrome

d) Alpha light chain disease

61) Popular Medical Novels of the thirties are

a) The Citadel

Until Mercy Triumphs

c) Not as a Stranger

d) The Doctor calls

62) Flea and Louse borne Rickettsial Diseases are

a) Murine Typhus

Typhoid Fever

c) Q Fever

d) Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis

63) Causes of Aspergillosis are

a) Aspergillus fumigatus

Aspergillus flavus

c) Aspergillus niger

d) Aspergillus chladosporium

64) Filarial worms are?

a) Nematodes

Round worms

c) Worms that dwell in subcutaneous tissues

d) Worms that dwell in the lymphatics

65) Ventricular flutter occurs

a) In patients with ischemic heart disease

They are produced by antiarrhythmic drugs

c) Present in torsades de pointes

d) Usually appears as a sine rate above 300 per minute

e) Usually starts out with a rapid repetitive

sequence at ventricular tachycardia

66) The Criteria for Rheumatic fever consists of

a) Subcutaneous Nodules

Heart Block

c) Sydenham's chorea

d) Improvement with salicylates

e) Erythema Marginatum

67) Symptoms of Mitral Stenosis are:

a) Hematesis

Hemoptysis

c) Thrombi in the right atrium

d) Malar flush

e) Diastolic Thrill

68) Systolic hypertension with wide pulse pressure occurs in

a) Thyrotoxicosis

Patent ductus arteriosis

c) Polycystic renal disease

d) Myexedema

e) Pheochromacytoma

69) Indications for liver transplantation are

a) Glycagen storage disease

Fulmanent hepatitis

c) Biliary atresia

d) Hemophilia

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70) Arthtitis may be

a) Spirochetal

Syphylitic

c) Viral

d) Fungal

e) Psoriatic

71) Diabetes Insipidus

a) Starts in childhood

More common in females

c) Major causes are neoplastic or infiltrative leisions of the hypothalamus

d) Characterized by polydipisia and polyphagia

e) Syptoms sudden in onset

72) Vasopressin excess is present in

a) Small cell carcinoma of the lung

Bronchogenic carcinoma

c) Guillain Barre Sydome

d) Skull fracture

73) Pheochromocycoma occurs in

a) Medullary carcinoma of thyroid

Hypoparathyroidism

c) Diabetes mellitus

d) Cholelithiasis

74) Marfan Syndrome characteristics are

a) Dislocated lens

Aortic Dilatation

c) Long and thin extremities

d) Facies of Abraham Lincoln

e) Hemacystinuria

75)Haemophilus Influenzae

a) Fopmerly called Haemophilus Aegypti

Long associated with conjunctivitis

c) Is the etiologic agent of chancroid

d) The most serious manifestation of HIB is meningitis

76) Antituberculocis Drugs are

a) Isoniozid

Rifampin

c) Penicillin

d) Chrolomycetin

77) Chlamydial infections cause

a) Pneumonia

Recurrent respiratory infections

c) Septicemia

d) Urinary Tract infections

78) Yellow fever caused

a) Major epidemics in Africa and the Americas

Black vomit

c) Wave of viremia

d) Hemorrhagic fever

e) Was filmed in " Yellow Jacket "

79) Plasmodium is found in

a) Body fluid

Urine

c) spinal fluid

d)Brain tissue

80) Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

a) Occurs in childhood

Acute pain indicates infection

c) Microscopic hematoma is uncommon

d) Hypertension is found in 20% of children

81) Calcium renal stones are commonly caused by

a) Idiopathic hypercalciuria

Distal irenal tubular acidosis

c) Heriditary hyperoxaluria

d) Dehydration

82) Causes of Hypergastremia

a)Renal insufficiency

Pheochromocytoma

c) Gastric outlet obstruction

83) Ulcurative Colitis is

a)Synonymous with Crohn's disease

Is synonymous with regional cateritis

c) Is an inflammatory reaction primarily involving the colonic mucosa

d) Sulfusalazine and glucocorticoids are the main treatment

84) Osteomyelitis

a) An infection of bone

Is of a single bone

c) Occurs in adults only

d) Does not occur in immunocompromised patients

85) Aphasia may be

a) Anomic

ic

c) Echolalia

d) Impaired for written language

86) Proptosis is

a) An abnormal lateral protusion of both eyes

Leading cause is Graves's optholimopathy

c) Orbital pseudotumor is a leading cause

d) Blepharoptosis

87) Clinical findings of drug induced cutaneous findings are

a) Skin pain

Positive Nikolsky's sign

c) Nueral rigidity

d) High fever

88) Skin manifestations of internal disease include

a) Pemphigus

Cicatricial pemphigoid

c) Rash

d) Erythema multiforme

89) Renal cell carcinoma is marked by

a) hemoturia

Abdominal Pain

c) Varicocele

d) Flank pain

90) Signs and symptoms of Renal Cell Cancer

a) Fever

Amyloidosis

c) Hypotension

d) Nonpalpable mass

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91) Tetanus is

a) A muscular disease

A neurological disorder

c) Caused by tetanospasmia

d) Caused by clostriclium tetani

e) Caused by increased muscle tone

92) Duoclenal Ulcer

a) Caused by H. pylori infection

H. pylori can be identified in gastric mucosa

c) Histology does not require endoscopy

d) Pain in epigastrium usually is ill defined

93) Lipid storage diseases are

a) Niemann-Pick disease

's disease

c) Hurler's disease

d) Lymphoma

94) Aplastic Anemia results from

a) Drugs

Epstein-Barr virus

c) Fanconi's anemia

d) Rarely Idiopathic

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95) Myclodysplastic Syndromes are

a) Preleukemic

More common in females

c) Unrelated to the atomic bomb

d) Patients are often asymptomatic early

96) Osteomyelitis is

a) Caused by pyogenic and mycobacteria

Microorganisms enter solely by hematogenic route

c) Infection may involve a single bone

d) May be secondary to a contiguous focus of infection

97) Conditions Predisposing to Pneumacoccal Infections do not include

a) Sickle Cell Anemia

Infancy and aging

c) Cirrhosis

d) Exposure to cold

e) None of the above

98) Cholera may be treated with

a) The withholding of fluids

Electrolytes and base

c) Curbing travel to endemic countries

d) Cereal based formulations

99) Complications of influenza include

a) Pneumonia

Cardiac disease

c) Worsening of chronic destructive pulmonary disease

d) Reye's syndrome

100) Rubella

a) Occurs only in children

Includes fever, rash and lymphadenopathy

c) Is a virus

d) Is a bacterium

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The Answers....

1)e

2)e

3)e

4)a

5)a

6)a,b and d

7)e

8)e

9)a,b,c,and d

10)a

11)d

12)a,bc,and d

13)c

14)a,b,c,d,and f

15)a,b,and d

16)c

17)a

18)a,c and e

19)b

20)a

21)b

22)b,c and d

23)c

24)e

25)a and b

26)e

27)a

28)a,b and c

29)b

30)a,b and d

31)c and d

32)b

33)a and b

34)e

35)a

36)c and d

37)e

38)e

39)c

40)a and b

41)a,b and c

42)a and d

43)e

44)a,b and c

45)a,b,c and d

46)c and d

47)a,b,c and d

48)a and c

49)a,b, and c

50)d

51)b

52)b

53)b and d

54)a and d

55)a and d

56)a,b and d

57)a

58)a,b and c

59)b,c,d and e

60)a,b, and c

61)a, and c

62)a,c and d

63)a,b and c

64)a,c and d

65)a,b,c and e

66)a,c and e

67)b,c,d and e

68)a and b

69)a,b,c and d

70)a,b,c,d and e

71)a,c,d + e

72)a,c and d

73)a,b and d

74)a,b,c and d

75)a,b and d

76)a and b

77)a and b

78)a and b

79)a,b, and c

80)d

81)a

82)a,b and c

83)c and d

84)a

85)a,b and c

86)b

87)a,b and d

88)a,b and d

89)a,b,c and d

90)a and b

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91)b,c and d

92)a and b

93)a

94)a,b and c

95)a and d

96)a,c and d

97)e

98)b,c and d

99)a,c and d

100)b and c

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