Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Flashcards
What are the 9 endocrine glands?
1) adrenal glands
2) hypothalamus
3) ovaries/ testes
4) pancreas
5) parathyroid
6) pineal gland
7) pituitary gland
8) thymus
9) thyroid
What is Acromegaly?
- Abnormal enlargement of the extremities
- Caused by hypersecretion of growth hormone
- Occurs in adults, as a result of a tumor
Signs and symptoms of addisons disease
- Dark pigmentation
- Hypotension
- Progressive fatigue
- Hyperkalemia
- GI disturbance
- Anorexia
- Nausea and vomiting
- Arthralgias
- Tendon calcification
- Hypoglycemia
What part of the body causes Addisons disease?
Adrenal gland
Which part of the body causes Cushing disease?
Adrenal gland
What are the signs and symptoms of Cushing disease?
- Moon face
- Buffalo hump at the neck
- Protuberant abdomen with stretch marks
- Hypertension
- Muscle wasting and weakness
- Decreased bone density
- Kyphosis and back pain
- Easy bruising
- Impaired fertility
- Psychiatric or emotional disturbance
- DM and slow wound healing
What is a thyroid storm?
life threatening complications: tachycardia, CHF, fever 105°F, shock
Will hyperthyroidism increase or decrease your heart rate?
Increase
>100
Will hyperthyroidism increase or decrease your metabolism?
Increase
What are the signs and symptoms of gout?
- Lumps under the skin( Tophi)
- Joint pain and swelling )1 st met)
- Fever and chills
- Malaise
- Redness
What are the signs and symptoms of osteoporosis?
- Back pain
- Compression fractures in spine
- Bone fractures
- Decreases in height
- Kyphosis
- Dowager’s hump
- Decreased activity tolerance
- Early satiety
What are the signs and symptoms of Paget’s disease?
- Pain in stiffness
- Fatigue
- Headache and dizziness
- Bone fractures
- Vertebral compression
- Bowing of long bones
- Increased clavicular size
- Osteoarthritis
- Head enlargement
- Periosteal tenderness
- Increased skin temp over long bones
- Decreased hearing
- Compression neuropathy
- Spinal stenosis
- Muscle weakness
- Paralegia
How many categories need to be “yes” on an osteoporosis screening to be of concern?
5 or more
