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Hormone Replacement Therapy Flashcards

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Deficient hormone: ACTH
Replacement?
Check?

A

Hydrocortisone

Serum cortisol levels

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Deficient hormone:TSH
Replacement?
Check?

A

Thyroxine

Serum free t4

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Deficient: LH/FSH women and men
Replacement?
Check?

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Women: HRT, resolved symptoms
Men: testosterone, resolved symptoms and serum testosterone

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Deficient hormone: GH
Replacement?
Check?

A

GH

IGF-1, growth chart

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Bromocriptine/cabergoline
What are they?
What do they treat?
Two effects
Side effects
Can also...
A

D2 receptor agonists
Prolactinomas
Decrease prolactin secretion and reduce tumour size
Side effects: nausea and vomiting, postural hypotension,dyskinesias, depression
Can also be used to treat acromegaly because some GH secreting pituitary tumours express D2 receptors too

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Octreotide
What is it?
What does it treat?
Side effects?

A

Somatostatin analogue
Acromegaly
GI side effects- nausea, diarrhoea, gallstones

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