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#july2020mccqe1 A 26-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department of the local hospital because she is feeling unwellI. Her last menstrual period occurred eight weeks ago - she usually has periods every month and she bled heavily vaginally yesterday. The bleeding has been less today. She...

#july2020mccqe1 A 62-year-old man presents with complaints of severe pain in his left wrist that he says is episodic and has increased in frequency over the past year. He says that he cannot move the wrist when this happens. His father had similar problems before he died of kidney problems due...

#july2020mccqe1 A 16-year-old girl is brought to the Emergency Department by her mother. The girl complains of persistent dull right-sided lower abdominal pain which has been recently increasing in severity. She also has spotting of blood per vaginam. Her last normal period was seven weeks ago...

#july2020mccqe1 A 75-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department after being found unresponsive at her home. She was last spoken to by her daughter on the phone 24 hours earlier, at which time she complained of chills, lethargy, and weakness. The woman has had a heart attack in the...

#july2020mccqe1 Histocompatibility matching has been most valuable in clinical practice for which one of the following human allografts from cadaver donors? (A) Cornea (B) Heart (C) Kidney (D) Pancreas (E) Liver

#july2020mccqe1 A 60-year-old man comes to his physician with complaints of easy fatigability and palpitations for the past 6 months. Physical examination is remarkable for pallor of skin and mucous membranes. No evidence of cardiac or respiratory disease is found. Hematologic studies show...

#july2020mccqe1 A 39-year-old California rancher consults a physician because of chronic abdominal pain. The man has been a sheepherder for 23 years. Physical examination is notable for a palpable liver mass but is otherwise unremarkable. Ultrasound demonstrates a 15-cm cyst bearing multiple...

#july2020mccqe1 Clinical features of schizophrenia may include thought disorder, spontaneous remission, negative symptoms, poor response to medication and persecutory delusions. In contrast to early onset schizophrenia, which one of these clinical features is most likely to occur in late onset...

#july2020mccqe1 A 61-year-old obese man with a history of chronic alcohol abuse is diagnosed with type 2 DM. In addition to diet modification and exercise, his physician recommends he begin therapy with a hyperglycemic agent. Several days after starting therapy, his wife comes home from work...

#july2020mccqe1 A moderately overweight 34-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with excessive sweating, flushing, tachycardia, and nervousness. Presuming that she might be suffering from thyrotoxicosis, the physician checks her blood levels of thyroid hormones, and finds that...

#july2020mccqe1 A Swan-Ganz catheter inserted into a patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) records a pulmonary artery wedge pressure of 6 mm Hg. The same pressure would be expected in which of the following structures? (A) Aorta (B) Left atrium (C) Left ventricle (D) Right...

#july2020mccqe1 During anatomy laboratory, a first-year medical student is dissecting the atrial chambers of the heart. At the upper border of the fossa ovalis, she discovers a small opening through which the tip of her probe can be passed from the right into the left atrium. The laboratory...

#july2020mccqe1 A 2-year-old girl is brought to her local doctor with a purulent unilateral nasal discharge, which has been present for six weeks despite two courses of oral cotrimoxazole. She is uncooperative when you try to examine her. Which one of the following is the most appropriate next...

#july2020mccqe1 A 22-year-old woman with longstanding constipation has severe ano-rectal pain on defecation. Rectal examination is impossible due to pain and spasm. What is the most likely diagnosis? (A) Anal hematoma (B) Anal fissure (C) Anal abscess (D) Protalgia fugax (E) Hemorrhoids

#july2020mccqe1 A group of investigators is studying a segment of the human genome that evidences an inter- individual variation in the number of nucleotides. They isolate a DNA segment of interest by running it on electrophoresis gel. They remove the portion of gel with the DNA and...

#july2020mccqe1 A 56-year-old woman with a history of chronic renal disease presents to the emergency department because of severe, sharp, retrosternal chest pain that radiates to her jaw. The pain worsens when the patient lies down, and she is most comfortable leaning forward and hugging her...

#july2020mccqe1 A 77-year-old woman is evaluated during a routine physical examination. She is asymptomatic and has a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hyperlipidemia. Medications are aspirin, lisinopril, hydrochlorothiazide, a glyburide, and lovastatin. She has no...

#july2020mccqe1 During a screening physical examination for participating in high school sports, a 14-year- old girl is found to have a late apical systolic murmur preceded by a click. The rest of the examination is unremarkable. Echocardiography shows superior displacement of the mitral...

#july2020mccqe1 A 20-year-old woman arrives at the emergency department actively seizing with QRS prolongation on ECG per paramedics. The patient’s roommate called emergency medical services after the patient collapsed, was not responsive to questioning, and began having clonic jerks...

#july2020mccqe1 A 4-year-old boy with recurrent urinary tract infections is evaluated for renal/urinary tract abnormalities with a voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG). Reflux is discovered, so an intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is performed. The renal anatomy appears normal. On the IVP, which of the...