Endocrinology

Question 1

What hormones are produced by the anterior pituitary?

Answer 1

TSH, Growth hormone, LH, FSH, ACH, Prolactin

Question 2

What hormones are produced by the posterior pituitary?

Answer 2

Oxytocin, ADH

Question 3

Main estrogen of pregnancy.

Answer 3

Estriol

Question 4

Gastrin is elevated in this condition.

Answer 4

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome

Question 5

Name the condition: hypoxia leading to low production of pituitary hormones, may affect multiple hormones, concern for women who have recently delivered a baby

Answer 5

Sheehan’s syndrome

Question 6

Any steroid that is a metabolite of androgenic and adrenocortical hormones that possess a carbonyl carbon on C-17.

Detectable with urinalysis for patients with adrenal disorders (hyperplasia).

Now replaced by metapyrone test, which directly detects 11 deoxycortisol levels

Answer 6

Ketosteroids (17ks)

Question 7

What medication is used in diabetes insipidus and bedwetting in children?

Answer 7

Desmopressin

Question 8

Self-limited (8-10 wks) painful inflammation of thyroid
Autoimmune / viral
Womenmore than men, 10-40 yo

Begins with hyperthyroid, then hypothyroid and finally euthyroid

Answer 8

De Quervain’s Subacute Granulomatous Thyroiditis

Question 9

Rock hard / woody thyroid 
mimics carcinoma 
More common in older women
Fibrotic thyroid proliferation
may cause hypothyroidism or dyspnea

Answer 9

Reidel’s Thyroiditis

Question 10

MC malignant thyroid tumor

Answer 10

Papillary carcinoma

Question 11

What CA can lead to SIADH?

Answer 11

Bronchogenic carcinoma

Question 12

What is the first line treatment of SIADH?

Answer 12

Fluid restriction - 1-1.5L daily

Question 13

MC pituitary adenoma

Answer 13

Prolactinoma