NBME practice exams Question and Answer

Wide pulse pressure and bounding peripheral pulses - PDA Echo findings in dilated cardiomyopathy - Diffuse hypokalemia and dilation of the ventricles Causes of dilated cardiomyopathy - Viral illness, alcohol, ischemia Tx for life threatening hyperkalemia - Calcium chloride or calcium gluconate X-ray finding doe ankylosing spondylitis - Narrowing or sclerosis of the SI joints Cause of amenorrhea is bleeding occurs after progesterone challenge - Anovulation Treatment for SIADH - Fluid restriction Initial management for claudication - Exercise program Hard nontender mass in the scrotum that doesn't transilluminate or change size when supine - Germinal cell tumor MG association - Thymoma Carbamazepine side effect - Leukopenia Hx of myelomeningocele repair now w bulging fontanelles, severe motor and sensory deficits, increasing head circumference - Where does thymus come from - 3rd and 4th pharyngeal pouches