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Lecture 6: Health Maintenance Flashcards

1
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What qualifies as postmenopause?

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No menstrual flow for 12+ months

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What is metrorrhagia?

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Menstrual bleeding between cycles

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What is considered polymenorrhea?

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20 days or less

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What is menometrorrhagia?

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Completely irregular bleeding

metrorrhagia is between cycles

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What is considered oligomenorrhea?

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35 days or more

poly is 20

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What time period qualifies as amenorrhea?

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No menstrual period in over 6 months

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7
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What might contact bleeding suggest?

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Cervical cancer

Postcoital, contact cervical

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8
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What does a radical hysterectomy remove?

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  • Uterus
  • Cervix
  • Pericervical tissue
  • Upper vagina
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What is a BSO?

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Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy

Removal of ovaries and tubes

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10
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TAH and TVH

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  • TAH: total abdominal hysterectomy
  • TVH: total vaginal hysterectomy
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When does the first reproductive health visit tend to occur?

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13-15

start of puberty?

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12
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What occurs at the first reproductive health visit?

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  • Health info
  • If symptomatic: pelvic or STD screen may be needed
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13
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When do we start pap smears and pelvic exams?

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  • Pap smears: 21 unless symptomatic, even if active
  • Pelvic exams: 21, but depends on s/s and hx.
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14
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How often are pap smears?

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Every 3-5 yrs

Usually start at age 21.

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15
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When are CBE indicated?

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Not really; its not required and not a replacement for a mammogram.

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16
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Ideal setup for a well woman exam

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  • Cloth gowns
  • Calming + aesthetic environment
  • One breast at a time (cover the other)
  • Allow companion if no issues
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17
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Although SBE is no longer recommended, what should a woman keep in mind if she still intends to examine her breasts?

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  • Visual exam for changes/dimpling
  • Palpate all quadrants
  • Examine same time every month
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18
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What test needs to be done prior to the bimanual exam?

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Pap smear

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19
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PANCE-wise, what do you lubricate the speculum with?

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Warm water

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20
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Describe a traditional pap smear

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  1. Cervical scraping around external os via SPATULA
  2. BRUSH in endocervical canal.

Spat first, brush 2nd

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21
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What structures are palpated during a bimanual exam?

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  • Cervix
  • Uterus
  • Adnexa: fallopian tubes and ovaries

adnexa usually palpable only in slim

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Describe the newer pap smear test

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  1. Insert broom so that short bristles touch ectocervix and long bristles in the center in the endocervical canal.
  2. Smash broom and swirl inside container once samples are obtained.
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23
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According to ACS guidelines, when are comprehensive skin exams indicated?

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  • For 20-40, Q3y
  • For 40+, Q1y
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Pap smear frequencies

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  1. 21-29: every 3 years
  2. 30-65: every 3 years OR HPV +/- pap every 5
  3. 65+: can stop if no hx of dysplasia/cx + 3 negative paps or 2 negative paps/HPVs in past 10y
  4. Guidelines do not apply to cervical cx, HIV+, immuno, or DES exposure
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25
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What STDs should all pregnant women be screened for regardless of risky behavior?

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  1. Hep B
  2. HIV
  3. Syphilis

HHS

26
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What age should pregnant women be screened for gonorrhea/chlamydia?

27
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For non-pregnant women, what are the STD screenings?

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  • HIV once if low risk
  • Gonorrhea/Chlamydia annually if < 25
  • If high risk: HIV/syph/trich/hepB/C/Gonorrhea/Chlamydia/(+/- HSV)
28
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Generally, when do you start mammograms?

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  • ACS/ACOG/ACR: annually at 40
  • USPSTF/WHO/ACP/AAFP: Biennial starting at 50

By 50, they should be screened biennially at minimum

29
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When do you stop mammograms?

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  • Life expectancy < 10y and in poor health
  • After age 74 on average
30
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Generally, when do you start colonoscopy screening?

31
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When is DEXA scan recommended?

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  • 65+
  • < 65 but you have the fx risk of a 65+ white female with no other RFs
  • No recommendations for men

You do it about every 2 years, no set frequency

32
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What does a 65y white woman with no other RFs have for their osteoporotic risk?

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9.3% 10 year risk

FRAX?

33
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How are pap smears graded?

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Bethesda system

34
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What are the two types of atypical squamous cells in the besthesda system?

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  • ASC-US (undetermined significance)
  • ASC-H (cannot exclude high-grade lesion)
35
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What does LGSIL/LSIL (low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion) correspond to? (CIN ranking)

36
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What does high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HGLSIL/HSIL) correspond to? (CIN ranking)

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CIN-II or CIN-III

37
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What are atypical grandular cells/AGC associated with?

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Adenocarcinoma of the endocervix or endometrium

38
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Describe CIN 1/2/3

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  1. CIN-I = disordered growth of lower 1/3
  2. CIN-II = disordered growth of lower 2/3
  3. CIN-III = disordered growth of over 2/3; considered full thickness
39
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When do you always treat CIN?

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CIN-2/3 always treated unless pregnant or CIN 2 in adolescents.

40
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Top 2 highest risk HPV strains

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  1. HPV 16: 50-70% of all cervical cancers
  2. HPV-18: 7-20% of all cervical cancers

HPV is in 80% of all CIN lesions + 99.7% of all invasive cervical cx.

41
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What secondary risk factor tends to synergistically increase risk of cervical cancer?

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HPV with SMOKING

42
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Tx for ASC-US

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  • Repeat cytology q6m until 2 normal.
  • Test for high-risk HPV (16/18)
  • Colposcopy

Any option viable. Colposcope if top 2 are abnormal.

Make sure to tx hormones and infections first.

43
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Next step in management for LSIL/HSIL/ASC-H/AGC

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Colposcopy

44
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What is done in colposcopy?

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  • Biopsies
  • Endocervical samples via curette or brushing

Addition of acetic acid makes lesions turn white

45
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Indications for colposcopy (5)

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  1. Abnormal cervical cytology/HPV testing
  2. Clinically abnormal cervix
  3. Unexplained metrorrhagia or contact bleeding
  4. Vulvar/vaginal neoplasia
  5. History of in utero DES exposure
46
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Management of CIN-1 after colposcopy

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  1. Continue monitoring
  2. 2 pap q6 mo OR pap + HPV at 6 months
47
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Management of CIN 2/3 & invasive cx or abnormal findings after colposcopy

48
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Summary of pap smear/biopsy results and followup

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Currettage for AGC and HSIL

49
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What is the major estrogen prior to menopause? After?

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  • Estradiol/E2 is the major secretory product of the ovaries, and is far more MC than estrone/E1
  • After menopause: estrone/E1 is MC as long as you’re not on hormone replacement.

EstrONE = 1st, estraDIol = 2

50
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What is the major estrogen during pregnancy?

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Estriol/E3

prEgnancy

51
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When are estrone levels ordered?

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  • Monitoring antiestrogen therapy
  • Adjunct assessment in fx risk
  • Disorders of sex steroid metabolism
  • Delayed/precocious puberty

typically only doninant in menopause

52
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When is estriol ordered?

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  • Quad screen in 2nd trimester
  • Screening for fetal pathologies
  • Marker for fetal demise
  • Assess preterm labor risk

primary estrogen in pregnancy

53
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When is estradiol ordered?

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  • Monitoring antiestrogen therapy
  • Disorders of sex steroid metabolism
  • Evalulating ovarian function
  • Monitoring HRT
  • Elevated in hepatic cirrhosis or hyperthyroidism

primary estrogen prior to menopause

54
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Where can progesterone be secreted by?

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  • Corpus luteum (post ovulation)
  • Adrenal glands (conversion to other steroids, no contribution unless tumor)
  • Placenta (primary by end of 1st trimester)
55
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What can interfere with progesterone readings? (2)

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  • Adrenal tumors
  • Biotin > 5mg/day
56
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When are FSH/LH low?

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  • Pituitary failure
  • Hypothalamic failure
  • Pregnancy
  • Anorexia/malnutrition
  • OCPs
57
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When are FSH/LH high?

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  • Menopause
  • Castration
  • Precocious puberty (age-adjusted)

FSH/LH are high when estrogen and progesterone are low.

58
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Main inihibitor of prolactin

59
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What drug classes can boost prolactin?

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  • Antipsychotics
  • Antiemetics
  • Antidepressants
  • THC
  • Ergots
  • Opiates
  • Methyldopa
  • Verapamil

Meds tend to cause a 2-4x ULN rise.

Mainly psych meds

60
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S/S of hyperprolactinemia

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  • Men: impotence
  • Women: oligomenorrhea/amenorrhea
  • MSK: decreased muscle mass and osteoporosis

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