USMLE Step 2 CK NBME 7 High Yield Exam Quiz-2024
Update.
Impaired fertility in a man and high riding bilateral mass. What is the underlying cause?
- Correct Answer Varicocele.
82 year old with decreased vision. Dilated veins, widespread retinal hemorrhages
intermixed with white plaques on fundoscopic exam. Diagnosis? - Correct Answer
Central retinal vein artery occlusion.
15 year old girl she is on chronic steroid therapy. Now presents with acute back pain.
What is the most likely cause? - Correct Answer Osteoporotic compression fracture.
Patient with flank pain with radiation to the groin. He has normal vital signs. Pain
relieved with morphine. Next best step? - Correct Answer Increase fluid discharge and
send him home.
Terminal cancer patient that comes in with acute onset lower back pain. She is taking
morphine Q4 which works for a bit but then subsides. What should you do to her
regimen? - Correct Answer Make the morphine Q3 so she has adequate pain control.
A young infant that has bilateral retinal hemorrhages and tense fontanelle. What is the
most likely cause? - Correct Answer Child abuse
What is the treatment for an acute gout attack? - Correct Answer 1. NSAIDs:
Indomethacin
2. Steroids
3. Colchicine
Patient who is sick in the ICU, and has (comatose level) hypernatremia. She has a low
urine specific gravity. Normal kidney function. What is the underlying cause of
hypernatremia? - Correct Answer Diabetes Insipidus. She cannot concentrate her urine.
4 year old boy. Suddenly develops a pancytopenia, has hepatosplenomegaly and
adenopathy. Some mild gingival bleeding. Next best step? - Correct Answer Bone
marrow biopsy. This kid has ALL.
Patient has a first time positive PPD and a negative chest X-ray. What is the next best
step? - Correct Answer This patient has latent TB. This means that he needs to be
treated with INH for 9 months.
Furthermore, if he had a negative PPD. B/c this is his first time, he would come back in
two weeks.
, Patient that is mute. Has bilateral nystagmus, hypertonia, decreased sensation to skin
prick. What is the most likely overdose? - Correct Answer Intoxication with PCP.
Remember he does not always have to be aggressive.
Patient has a family history of ovarian cancer. What is the best thing to do if she is
worried that she may get an ovarian malignancy? - Correct Answer Put her on OCP.
They prevent risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer.
Elderly patient with increased ESR. Decreased hip motion, and a 20 degree hip flexion
contracture. What is the most likely cause? - Correct Answer Osteoarthritis. Decrease in
flexion of 115 degrees is diagnostic criteria. X-ray may show joint space narrowing.
COPD patient that is post operative day 4 complains of serosang discharge. PE shows
abdominal distension, mild tenderness to the incision, and no erythema. What is the
most likely diagnosis? - Correct Answer Wound dehiscence. Pestana says a salmon
colored discharge that SOAKS the dressing on post-op day four.
A patient comes in with upper motor neuron signs along with atrophy fasiculations and
LMN signs. What will the EMG show? - Correct Answer Fibrillation potentials in multiple
sites of the muscle. UpToDate: Fibrillation potentials occur when an individual muscle
fiber is denervated (eg, it is no longer innervated by its nerve terminal). The denervated
muscle fiber spontaneously produces a muscle action potential, or fibrillation potential.
Patient feels as if something is crawling on his skin. He has visual hallucinations, and
multiple excoriations on his face. What is the urinary tox screen going to show? -
Correct Answer Amphetamines or cocaine. Remember this might be an opiate
withdrawal, however the question asks the urinary toxicology screen.
A patient has a nine-pound baby, and continues to bleed. Furthermore, the placenta
comes out. It is torn, but intact. What is the likely cause of increased bleeding? - Correct
Answer Uterine atony. Just had a huge baby.
Patient with urinary dripping. Found to have a midline cystic mass in the middle third of
the vagina. What is the likely diagnosis? - Correct Answer Urethral diverticulum. Google
images has a nice picture.
A baby that just was born. Is pale, edematous and jaundiced. Non-complicated
pregnancy. Has super low Hb, high indirect billi, hepatosplenomegaly. What is the most
likely diagnosis? - Correct Answer This is going to be Rh incompatibility. Even though
this pregnancy was uncomplicated, do not assume that there was Rh given (or in
adequate amounts). Furthermore, realize that ABO compatibility is a much more self-
limited cause of jaundice.
Patient that has a pituitary lesion. Bilateral breast discharge. Prolactin level is 40. What
is the most appropriate next step in management? - Correct Answer Medical therapy:
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