Endocrinology Flashcards
Short stature Generals (not napoleon)
-height 2 SDs below mean.
- normal variant = below 3rd %ile but normal velocity, pathologic if velocity low
-Eval the growth rate! In first 2 YoL, downward shift in %ile means you just a shawty
Kids growing 2 inches/year between age 3 and puberty usualy do NOT have an endocrine disorder
All pts w/ stature 3 SDs below mean or w/ growth <5 cm/ year = pathologic upo
Mid parental height
Use to distinguish a normal variant short stature vs. pathologic
Most kids are within +-4 inches or 2 SDs of MPH
Major diff between MPH %ile and current growth %ile = BAD
Male MPH = Fathers height + mom’s H + 5 inches/2
Female = fathers-5+moms/2
In short stature history look for
Perinatal hx of IUGR. If hypogly, jaundice, cryptorchid or micophallus, think hypopit
Chronic diseases- renal failure, CNS, asthma w/ steroids, sickle cell, IBD
Drug use- roids, stims for ADHD (app suppresion)Fam hx- parental growht/ub histories
social hx- critical- psychosocial dep
ROS- cold, constipation, ab pain, diarrhea, bloody stool, h/a, vom
P/E short stature
Accurate height/weight
Measure U/L body seg- (L = pubic symphysis to heel, upper == rest). Normal = 1.7 @ birth, 1.3 @ 3, 1 at >7. High U:L = rickets, low U:L = marfans
Eyes, thyroid, genetic syndrome check
(Web neck, shield chest, short fourth metacarpal = turners, tanner, scoliosis)
Normal variant short stature
Familial or genetic- hiegh 2 SD below mean with short MPH but NORMAL bone age/onset of puberty + at least 2in/year
constiutional short = 2 SD below + delayed puberty in either/both parentals, delayed bone age, late onset puberty, 2 inc/year
Pathologic short stature
More than 3 SD below w/ low growth velocity
Proportionate = normal u/l ratio, can be pre/postnatal
Prenatal Onset Proportionate SS
Environmental- tobacco/alcohol
Chromosome disorders- downs/turners
Genetic syndromes- russel-silver, prader-willi
Viral infec in prego- CMV/rubella
Postnatal onset proportionate SS
Malnurition, psychosocial causes, or
Organ system disease- Gi = ibd, cardiac = cyanotic congen heart disease, kidney issue, cld, endocrinopathies
Disproportionate short stature
very short legged, increased u/l ratio, rickets/skeletal dysplasia
Rickets = frontal boss, bow leg, low serum phosph, high serum alk phosph
Skeletal dysplasia - short w/ short limbs
To do studies if SS
Lab studies- CBC, ESR, T4, calcium, phosph, Cr, bicarb
IGF-1 (for GH deficiency- check during stage IV non-REM sleep), chromo anlaysis
Radiographic- bone age determine w/ AP of L hand/wrist (look at epiphyses)
AP/lateral skull radiographs to look at pituitary (sella turcica distort/suprasellar calc may be craniopharyngioma)
GH deficiency
Rare. Clin fx= prolonged neonatal jaundice, hypogly, cherubic facies, cnentral obesity, microphallus, cryptorchidism, midline defects
Growth curve w/ poor velocity
Why? - Craniopharyngioma (consider in any kid not going 2/year), prior CNS irrad, CNS vasc issue, AI disease, trauma, congen midline defects. 1 midline incisor + cleft palate
Eval- delayed bone age, MRi of head, Low IGF-1 level, poor esponse to GH stim testing
MGMT = daily subQ recombo GH until max growth potential reached (13-14 in girls, 15-16 males)
Hypothyroidism
Hashimoto’s most common cause
Prsent = increased TSh, low t4, positive antithyroid preoxidase antibodies
Hypercortisolism
Iatrogenic, from prolonged steroid use
Por growth, increasing weight, purpuric strecth marks, dorsal neck fat pad, delayed bone age
Turners
ack of puberty, growth hormone abnormality, GH injections can help
Normal puberty
Prepub- sex steroids supressed by neg feedback at hypothal
Pub begins when reduction in hypothal inhib = > HPG activation
HPGA releases RGnRH, hits pit, FH, GNRH out
Male puberty
@ 9-14 y/o, tesitcular enlargement usually first >4 ml, 75% volume = seminiferous tubules
FSH => sem tubule sperm making
LH = testic Leydig cells make androgens => penile enlarge, axillary, facial, pubic hair
Precocious puberty
Girls- breast dvpt or pubic hair before 7 years agemenarche before 9 yo
boys- testic/penile/pubic changes before 9 years
Premature thelarce
Visible/palapable breast tissue only, nada else, no pubic hair
Very comon bening, usually first 2 years of live
Transient activated HPGA, => trans ovarian follicular stim/release of low estrogen level
NO TX unless pubes/rapid growth spurt
Premature Adrenarche
Just pubic/axillary hair w/out breat tissue/testes
More common in girls
Usually after 5 years, onset of hair + smelly sweat. Growth stays normal, you’re all good
Isosexual precocious puberty/central precocious puberty
Early onset of gonadotropins puberty, just too early, more in girls, see errythang
girls- idiooathic
Boys- tends to be organic, need and MRi
Why? hydrocephalus, CNs infec, CP, benign hypothalamic hamartomas, malig tumors (astorcytoma/glioma), severe head trauma
Also mabes hypothy but poor growth/delayed bone age (not like rest)
Eval of CPP
Elevated FSh, LH, sex steroids
GnRh stim test- inject into patient, LH dramatic increase if CPP.
But with peripheral puberty/inactive HPGA, flat response to injection (b/c periph sex steroids suppress pit gonadotropin secretion)
Do a head MRI in all boys + young girls w/ any neuro sx (h/a or seizure) or rapid pubertal changes
Peripheral Precocious Puberty/Heterosexual Gonadotropin Indep Puberty
Indep of HPGA- caused by periph prod of sex steroids, no FSH/LH mediation, flat respose
Clin fx- boys = feminiation or premature pubic hair. NO testicular enlargement b/c no increase in FSH
Girls = virilization or breast development
Etio- exog exposure, gonadal tumors, adrenal tumors, nonclassic CAH
Boys- think adrenal tumor, Leydig cell tumors (asymm testic enlargement), CAH, BhCG tumor, mccune albright syndrome, testotoxicosis
Girls- adrenal tumors, virilizing ovarian tumors (arrhenoblastomas), feminizing ovarian tumors, nonclassic CAH, Mccune
Mccune Albright syndrome
bony changes (polyostotic fibrous dysplasia)
skin finds- coast of Main cafe-au-lait spots
Endocrinopathies- PPP or hyperthyroidism
Enlarged gonads but secretion of sex steriods indep of HPGA
MGMT- look at fsh, lh, tetoterone, b-hcg
Testoxicosis
Rare, testes enlarge bilaterally indep of HPGA
B-Hcg tumors
Unique to boys
In chest, pineal gland, gonad, or liver (heaptoblastoma)
B-hcg crossreacts w/ Lh, binds too, enlarges testes slightly
Stim Leydig cells and secreting androgens
Delayed puberty
Boys- no testic enlarge by 14, girls no breast by 13, no period by 14
Hypogoadotropic hypogonad inactive hypothal/pit, low FSH/LH, low test/estriol, flat stim test
Hypergonadotropic gonadism- end-organ dysfn, FSH/LH HIGH, low test/estriol (hypothal/pit are fine)
Why hypogonadotropic hypogonad?
Constitutional delay of puberty more common in boys, often fam hx, often w/ delay of growth too
Chronic disease- IBD, arex, renal fil, heart failure
Hypopit- brain tumors
Primary hypothyroid
Prolactinoma
Genetic- Kallman (no gonadotropin or smell), Prader-Willi, Lawrence-Moon-Biedl (obesity, retinitis pigmentosa, hypogonad, polysyndactyly)