Alert Medical Series: USMLE Alert II

By Ala Sarraj, MD

This series is a compilation of powerful high yield random notes and comparisons that will guarantee laser-sharp comprehensive and effective knowledge acquisition and high score passing rates in the fields of USMLE (US Medical Licensing Exam), Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine boards.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Release date: Oct 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781478783701

Ala Sarraj, MD

The Author:  Ala Sarraj, MD, American board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. He graduated from Damascus Univ. Med. School / Syria. Trained at Georgetown Univ. Dept. of Medicine / DC General hospital, Washington, DC, and Rush Univ. Med. center / Chicago. Dr. Sarraj is a full time emergency medicine physician in Chicago metropolitan area since 1991. The Editor:  The series was reviewed and edited by Maggy Shamekh, MD. A graduate, residency trained and holding masters degree of family medicine from Cairo Univ. Med. School / Egypt. Performed collaboration research work between Cairo Univ. cancer institute and MD Anderson cancer center, Houston / Texas. Worked for the WHO for the eradication of polio in the Middle East. Dr. Shamekh is a diplomat in health care quality management from the American Univ. / Cairo.

Book preview

icover.jpg

The opinions expressed in this manuscript are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent the opinions or thoughts of the publisher. The author has represented and warranted full ownership and/or legal right to publish all the materials in this book.

Alert Medical Series: USMLE Alert II

All Rights Reserved.

Copyright © 2016 Ala Sarraj, MD

v6.0 r1.0

Cover Photo © 2016 thinkstockphotos.com. All rights reserved - used with permission.

This book may not be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in whole or in part by any means, including graphic, electronic, or mechanical without the express written consent of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Outskirts Press, Inc.

http: //www.outskirtspress.com

ISBN: 978-1-4787-8370-1

Outskirts Press and the OP logo are trademarks belonging to Outskirts Press, Inc.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

img.jpg

Preface

Alert Medical Series is a compilation of powerful random high yield notes and comparisons that will guarantee comprehensive and effective knowledge base and high score passing rates in the fields of USMLE (US Medical Licensing Exam), INTERNAL MEDICINE and EMERGENCY MEDICINE boards alike.

It reflects years of revision and update that will save medical students, residents and physicians measurable time of test prep and knowledge acquisition.

Alert Medical Series will serve you like multitude of pixels creating very high resolution and sharp picture.

The USMLE series notes (basic and clinical) were put in a random manner mixing basic and clinical notes to simulate real life knowledge building and to reflect the future trend in USMLE testing to combine clinical science and the clinically based basic science.

•Aphasia:

Frontal: expressive (Broca’s).

Temporal: receptive (Wernicke’s).

•Parietal lobe masses:

Dominant: miscalculation and missing right from left.

Non dominant: neglect syndrome and illness denial.

•Parietal masses: ipsilateral findings.

•Seizures are only supratentorial.

•In acute oliguric renal failure: dilated tubules and interstitial edema.

•In malignant hypertension: onion skin lesions of small vessels with fibrosis.

•Hydronephrosis can result from partial obstruction of the ureter.

Whereas complete obstruction leads to renal atrophy.

•Urinary Metanephrine levels: most accurate means to diagnose pheochromocytoma.

•Pituitary irradiation is