USMLE Step 1 Q of the Day!

A teenage male with a past medical history of sickle cell anemia presents to the ER with severe pain just below his anterior rib cage on the right side. The pain is colicky in nature. After diagnostic work-up, the patient is taken to the OR for cholecystectomy. Examination of the gall bladder reveals many dark black stones. These stones are made up of which one of the following substances?

a)carbon
b)bilirubin
c)urate
d)struvite
e)cholesterol


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answer: B) bilirubin.





What is the Drug of choice for

pregnancy induced hypertension



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answer: methyldopa