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Hypo and Hyperthyroidism Flashcards

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What is hyperthyroidism

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Due to excess T3 and T4

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Is hyperthyroidism usually caused by excess TSH

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No, this is very rare

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What is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism

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Graves’ disease

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What is thyrotoxicosis

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Clinical syndrome resulting from the effect on the tissues due to circulating T3 and T4 - increased metabolic rate

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What three diseases usually result in hyperthyroidism

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  1. Graves’ thyroiditis
  2. Functioning adenoma
  3. Toxic nodular goitre
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What is strums ovarii

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A rare tumour in which thyroid hormones are produced and released into the blood - leading to an excess

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Signs of Graves’ thyroiditis

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  1. Associated with diffuse goitre
  2. Thyroid is enlarged, firm and red
  3. Hyperplasia of acing epithelium
  4. Reduction in colloid
  5. Accumulation of lymphocytes in lymphoid follicle formation
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Why does the thyroid appear red in Graves’ thyroiditis

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Due to increased vascularisation

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How does Graves’ thyroiditis occur

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IgG are produced (autoimmune) which bind to thyroid epithelial cells and stimulates it like TSH would - stimulatory hypersensitivity

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What are the IgG autoantibodies known as

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LATS - Long-acting thyroid hypersensitivity

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Symptoms of individuals with Graves’ thyroiditis

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  1. Exopthalmos (bulging of eyes due to deposition of fat in retrobulbal area + inflammatio/oedema of extra-ocular muscles) - MOST COMMON
  2. Accumulation of mucopolysaccharides in dermis
  3. Finger clubbing
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Do adipocytes have receptors to TSH

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Yes

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What is nodular goitre

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Thyroid enlarges (usually due to iodine deficiency)

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How does hypothyroidism effect the metabolic rate

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Lowers it

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Symptoms of hypothyroidism

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  1. Accumulation of mucopolysaccharides in the face - myxoedema face
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How does hypothyroidism effect a newborn

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  1. Physical growth and mental development impaired - Cretinism
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Where is cretinism common

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Areas where diet contains insufficient iodine for thyroid hormone synthesis

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What is the most common cause of hypothyroidism

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Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

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Describe some iatrogenic causes of hypothyroidism

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  1. Removal of the thyroid surgically

2. Certain drugs causing it as a side-effect

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What is myxoedema

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swelling of the skin and underlying tissues giving a waxy consistency

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What can happen to the thyroid later on in patients with hypothyroidism

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Atrophy and fibrosis

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Appearance of the thyroid during hypothyroidism

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  1. Firm, fleshy and pale
  2. Densley infiltrated by plasma cells and lymphocytes with lymphocytic colloid formation
  3. reduction in colloids
  4. Thyroid epithelial cells enlarge and develop eosinophilic granular cytoplasm
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Why do thyroid epithelial cells develop eosinophilic granular cytoplasms in hypothyroidism and what are they now known as

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Due to proliferation of mitochondria

Askanazy cells

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Why is there a transient phase at the beginning of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

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  1. Damage to the thyroid follicles lead to release of thyroglobulin into circulation
25
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What would appear in blood tests for patient’s who are positive for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

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  1. Two autoantibodies

One reacting with thyroid peroxidase

One reacting with thyroglobulin

26
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Where are the autoantibodies in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis formed

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Locally by plasma cells infiltrating the thyroid

27
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Define goitre

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Enlargemnt of the whole gland WITHOUT hyperthyroidism

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What is parenchyma’s goitre

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  1. First hyperplasia of the thyroid epithelium
  2. Loss of coloids
  3. Eventually less active areas are compressed by hyperplastic areas
  4. Fibrosis may separate the less active areas - multi nodular goitre
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How can multi-nodular goitre be detected

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They can be palpated clinically

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What is colloid goitre

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  1. No epithelia hyperplasia (unlike parenchyma)
  2. Lots of colloid found
  3. Colloids form cysts
  4. Haemorrhage found
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Symptoms of colloid goitre

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  1. Tracheal compression (difficulty breathing)

2. Stridor

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What is stridor

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Harsh or greeting sound during breathing

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How is hypothyroidism caused (3 ways)

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  1. Iodine deficiency
  2. Inherited enzyme defects in T3 n T4 synthesis
  3. Drugs that induce hypothyroidism
34
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Under a histological slide, what is an indication of colloid goitre

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The follicles are distended by accumulated colloid

35
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How do we deal with people who come into a clinic with a solitary mass in the thyroid (this is very common)

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  1. Checking thyroid secretory status (serum TSH, T3 and T4 levels)
  2. Ultrasound imaging and checking for thyroid neoplasia \
36
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What two ways do solitary masses tend to go

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  1. Turn out to be one large nodule in a multi nodular goitre

2. May be neoplastic (rare)

37
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What is the most common thyroid tumour

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Follicular adenoma

38
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Signs of follicular adenoma

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1, Solid mass within a fibrous capsule, compressing the adjacent gland
2. Centre shows haemorrhage and cystic changes

39
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Histological signs of follicular adenoma

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  1. Compact follicles lined by epithelium
  2. Nuclear hyperchromatism
  3. Very little colloid
  4. Fibrous capsule not breached by tumour
  5. Epithelial cells have large central clear areas in nuclei
40
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How common is a follicular carcinoma

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Rare

41
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Why is a follicular carcinoma rare

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Because tumours are well-differentiated

42
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What is follicular carcinoma associated with

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Exposure to ration (x-rays)

43
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In what aged patients is papillary adenocarcinoma found

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Less than 45s

44
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Appearance of a papillary adenocarcinoma

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  1. Non-encapsulated infiltrative mass
  2. Firm - due to fibrosis
  3. White - due to fibrosis
45
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What do papillary adenocarcinomas look like histologically

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  1. Epithelial papillary projections between which calcified capsules (psammoma bodies) are present
  2. Nulcei have clear central areas
46
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How do papillary adenocarcinomas metastasise

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Via the lymphatic within the thyroid glands and the cervical lymph nodes

47
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Why does papillary adenocarcinoma have a good prognosis

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As it is a slow-growing tumour

48
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Follicular adenocarcinoma vs follicular adenoma

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  1. Adenocarcinoma shows blood vessels and invasion of capsule
49
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How does follicular adenocarcinoma metastasise

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Blood stream to the bones and lungs

50
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Why does follicular adenocarcinoma have a good prognosis

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Retains ability to take up 131-I

51
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Where are anapaestic carcinomas common

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Elderly

52
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Why does anapalastic carcinomas have a poor prognosis

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Because it results in rapid local invasion of structures such as the trachea

53
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What causes medullary carcinoma

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Thyroid C-cells

54
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What do C-cells produce

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Calcitonin

55
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Role of calcitonin

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Lowers Ca levels in the blood:

  1. Inhibits osteoclast activity in bones
  2. Inhibits renal tubular absorption of Ca and phosphate
56
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What acts antagonistically to calcitonin

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Vitamin D and PTH

57
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How does non-hodgkin’s lymphoma relate to thyroid

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Originates in the thyroid in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis more commonly

58
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Where do lymphomas of the thyroid gland originate from

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Neoplasms of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue

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