ENDOCRINE Flashcards
What are the most common adrenal tumors in adult and children patients?
Adult pheocromocitoma
Children neuroblastoma
What hormones are secreted by anterior pituitary?
FSH LH ACTH GH TSH MSH
What hormones are secreted in posterior pituitary?
ADH
Oxytocin
Explain different Glucose transporter
INSULIN INDEPENDENT GLUT-1 RBCs brain cornea GLUT-2 B-cells , liver, kidney, S. Intestine GLUT-3 Brain GLUT-5 spermatocyte (fructose)
INSULIN DEPENDENT
GLUT-4 adipose tissue striate muscle
What is the relation between dopamine , prolactine, GnRH ,FSH
Dopamine❎ prolactine ❎ GnRH ✅ FSH LH
TRH✅ prolactine
Management of HIV lipodistrophy?
Tesamorelin
GHRH analog
What’s the Somatostatin function?
⬇️GH
⬇️TSH
What’s the bromocriptine use?
Dopamine analog
Used in prolactinoma
What’s the activity of somatomedine C (IGF-1) in glucose?
⬆️insulin resistance
DIABETOGENIC
What’s the function of Ghrelin and Leptin?
Ghrelin : ⬆️ Hunger
Leptin: satiety hormone
Endocanabinoides desire of fat food
What’s the presentation of deficiency of 17alfa hydroxylase?
XY pseudohermafroditism
XX lack of 2 sexual development
What’s the presentation of 21alfa hydroxylase deficiency ?
Precocious puberty
XX virilization
⬆️renin activity
What’s the presentation of 11 beta hydroxylase deficiency ?
XX virilization
⬇️ Renin activity
What’s the anti inflammatory effects of cortisol?
❎ LKTs , PGs ❎ WBCs adhesion, neutrophilia ❎ Histamine release ❎ eosinophils ❎ IL-2
What is the relation between pH and calcium?
⬆️pH leads to ⬆️calcium bound to albumin
HYPOCALCEMIA
What are the sources of Vit D?
Vit D3 🌞
Vit D2🌿
Liver – 25-0H –Kidney—1,25-OH
What’s the PTH function in Ca and PO4?
⬆️️️ Ca reabsortion ⬇ PO4 reabsortion
⬆️ macrophage colony stimulate
⬆️ RANK-L ✅ osteoclasts
Relation between PTH and Mg
⬇️Mg leads to ⬆️ PTH
⬇️⬇️ Mg leads to ⬇️ PTH
What’s the activity of calcitonin?
Opposite of PTH
What’s the consequence of alteration of sex hormone binding globulin levels?
Men ⬆️ SHBG leads to gynecomastia
Women⬇️SHBG leads to hirsutism
What’s the function of T3 ( 4Bs)
Brain maturation
Bone growth
B-adrenergic effects
Basal metabolic rate
What’s wolf chaickof effect?
Too much iodine leads to ❎peroxidase
What’s the function of peroxidase?
Oxidation
Organification
Coupling
What’s the function of propiltiuracil and metimazol?
Propiltiuracil ❎ peroxidase ❎ 5-deiodinase
Metimazol ❎ peroxidase
What’s Cushing disease?
ACTH secreting pituitary adenoma
How screening Cushing syndrome?
If ⬇️ACTH do MRI to look for adrenal tumor
If ⬆️ACTH is a ACTH dependent Cushing syndrome
You have to differentiate whit hi dose dexamethasone or CRH stimulation between ectopic or Cushing disease
What’s metyrapone stimulation test?
Metyrapone blocks the last step of cortisol synthesis
Block 11deoxycortisol to cortisol
Normal ⬆️ACTH
Causes of primary adrenal insufficiency ?
Hemorrhage
Addison disease ( autoimmune, TB, metastasis)
Waterhouse friederichsen syndrome (N. Meningitides)
What’s the clinical presentation to primary adrenal deficiency(4) ?
Hypotension
Hyperkalemia
Metabolic acidosis
Skin mucosa hyper pigmentation
What’s the clinical presentation to secundary adrenal deficiency(2) ?
Same whit out
Hyperkalemia
Hyper pigmentation
What’s the clinical presentation to tertiary adrenal deficiency) ?
Abrupt whit drawl of steroids
Very important features of neuroblastoma
Children
Pheocromocitoma 10a rule (5)
10% malignant
10% bilateral
10% extra-adrenal
10% calcify
10% kids
Pheocromocitoma associations (4)
neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1)
von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL)
MEN 2A and 2B. (RET)
Treatment of pheocromocitoma ?
FIRST IRREVERSIBLE ALFA ANTAGONIST Phenoxybenzamine
SECOND beta blockers
What type of cancer is associated whit hashimoto thyroiditis?
Non-Hodking lymphoma
Histologic findings hashimoto disease
Hurthle cells
Features of Subacute thyroiditis (de Quervain)
Very tender
Early hyperthyroidism follow by hypothyroidism
Following flu like symptoms
What’s Riedel thyroiditis?
Fibrous tissue replacement of thyroid
Autoimmune pancreatitis
Retro peritoneal fibrosis
Aortic is no infectious
What’s toxic multinodular goiter?
Mutation of TSH receptor
Follicles work independently
Treatment of thyroid storm?
Propanolol
Propylthiouracil
prednisolone
Surgery complications of thyroidectomy
Hoarseness damage laryngeal recurrent
HYPOCALCEMIA
Damage N. laryngeal superior
What’s histologic findings in papillary carcinoma thyroide (4)?
Orphan Annie” eyes)
psammoma bodies,
RET and BRAF mutations,
childhood irradiation.
Medullary carcinoma …
Parafolicular cells C cells
MmE. 2 and 3
Signs of hypocalcemia in hypoparatiroidism (2)
Chvostek sign—tapping of facial nerve (tap the Cheek) contraction of facial muscles.
Trousseau sign—occlusion of brachial artery with BP cuff (cuff the Triceps) carpal spasm.
What’s Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia?
Not negative fed back from Ca to PTH
What’s the most common pituitary adenoma?
Prolactinoma benign
What’s the major risk for cancer in acromegaly ?
Colorectal polyps and cancer
Causes of Diabetes insipidus nephrogenic ?
Hypercalcemia
Litius
Demeclocycline
Treatment for diabetes nephrogenic
HCTZ
Indomitacine
Amiloride
Hydration
Treatment of SIADH
Fluid restriction IV hypertonic saline Conivaptan Tolvaptan Demeclocycline
What kind of genes are implicated in Type I DM?
HLA-DR3
HLA-DR4
Dif rent histology findings in DM1 Vs. DM2
DM1 islet leukocyte infiltrate
DM2 Islet amyloid polypeptide deposits
Symptoms of glucagonoma
Dermatitis
Diabetes
Depression
Key symptom in carcinoid syndrome?
Pellagra (⬇️ niacin)
⬆️5-HIAA
Rule of 1/3 of carcinoid syndrome?
1/3 metastasize
1/3 present with 2nd malignancy
1/3 are multiple
Test to Zollinger-Ellison syndrome?
Gastric levels after secretin hormone
Normally gastrin goes down
How Is the different MEN affection?
♦️ MEN 1 Pituitary ,Parathyroid , Páncreas
⬛️ MEN 2A Parathyroid , pheochromocytoma, medullary thyroid
RET gene Mutation marfanoid habitus
🔺 MEN 2B pheochromocytoma , Neuromas, medulary thyroid
RET gene Mutation marfanoid habitus
In kind of patients metformin (biguanide) is contraindicated?
Renal insufficient patients
Toxicity by sulfunylurea chlorpropamide gliburide
Hypoglycemia in renal failure
Disulfiram like effect in chlorpropamide
Hypoglycemia whit glibenclamide
Mechanism of action of glitazones , thiazolidinediones
⬆️ insulin sensitivity in peripheral tissue.
Binds to PPAR-γ + RXR nuclear transcription regulator
⬆️levels of adiponectine
⬆️GLUT4
Side effects of glitazones,thiazolidinediones
Weight gain
Edema
Heart failure
Risk of fractures
Function of GLP-1 analogs
Exenatide, Liraglutide.
⬆️insulin, ⬇️glucagon release.
Action of α-glucosidase inhibitors Acarbose, Miglitol
Inhibit intestinal brush-border α-glucosidases.
What drugs is use safely in pregnancy to treat hyperthyroidism?
Propylthiuracil
Inhibit oxidation, organification, 5’deiodinase
What’s the uses of somatostatin (octreotide) (5)?
Acromegaly, carcinoid syndrome, gastrinoma, glucagonoma, esophageal varices.
What’s the Cushing syndrome(11)?
hypertension weight gain moon facies truncal obesity buffalo hump thinning of skin striae osteoporosis hyperglycemia amenorrhea immunosuppression
What’s cinacalcet?
Sensitizes Ca2+-sensing receptor (CaSR) in parathyroid gland to circulating Ca2+ PTH
How TNF-Alfa, cathecolamines, corticoids , glucagon induces insulin resistance resistance?
by phosphorylation of serine or threonine residues of beta subunits of insulin receptor
What’s the function of TSH in thyroid follicles?
Stimulation of iodine -sodium symporter
Increases the synthesis of thyroglobulin
Causes of functional hypothalamic amenorrhea (4)
Excessive weight loss
Streneus exercise
Chronic illness
Eating disorder
⬇️LEPTINES
Leads to ⬇️ GnRH (⬇️LH,FSH ⬇️ estrogen) amenorrhea bone lose
What’s conn syndrome?
Adenoma producing aldosterone
What’s aldosterone escape?
When there are too much aldosterone
There hight activity to reabsorb NA and water
BUT!!!! Atrial natriuretic peptide generate sodium excretion
What’s neurophysins?
Carriers proteins for Oxytocin (paraventricular) and ADH (supraoptic)
What’s propiomelanocortina?
Pre hormone which generate ACTH and MSH
What’s the function of TRH?
Stimulates release of TSH and prolactin
What’s the function of sun in Vit D?
7-dehydrocholesterol–🌞– cholecalciferol (Vit D3)