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Thyroid Disease Flashcards

1
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Bruit?

A

Extreme amounts of blood flowing through thyroid

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2
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Retrosternal goitre causes?

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Deviation of trachea

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3
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How many people have thyroids checked?

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1 in 4

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Thyroid autoantibodies?

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Anti TPO AB thyroid peroxidase- adds iodine to thyroglobulin.

TSH receptor TRAB

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Symptoms of hypothyroidism?

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Lethargy, mild weight gain, cold intolerance, constipation, facial puffiness, dry skin, hair loss, hoarseness and heavy menstrual periods

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Severe hypothyroidism?

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Stupor or coma, median nerve compression, ascites etc

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Causes of hypothyroidism?

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  1. Autoimmune
  2. Iatrogenic
  3. Iodine deficiency
  4. Congenital hypothyroidism
  5. Drugs
  6. Thyroditis

Addict

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Secondary hypothyroidism hormone level?

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TSH, T3 and T4 low

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9
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Treat of hypothyroidism?

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T4 100 micro gram daily

If old and ishchaemic heart disease, start at 25 to 50

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10
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Myxedema?

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Accumulation of glycosaminoglycans in interstitial space of tissues, severe hypothyroidism

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Symptoms of thyrotoxicosis, hyperthyroidism?

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Weight loss, increased appetite, lack of energy, thirst, palpitations, heat intolerance, anxious irritable, oligomenorrhoea

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Signs of thyrotoxicosis?

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Tremor, warm moist skin, tachycardia, brisk reflex, eye signs, thyroid bruit, muscle weakness and atrial fibrillation

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Thyroid eye disease?

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20% of people with Graves’ disease

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TED symptoms?

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Itchy, dry eyes, prominent eyes.
Diplopia (double vision), loss of colour vision, redness and swelling of conjunctival unable to close eyes, tightness behind eye

Inflammation of all orbital tissues except eye

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Proptosis?

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Pushing forward of eyes

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Opthamolplegia?

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When eyes don’t move smoothly

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17
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Causes of thyrotoxicosis?

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  1. Graves- accounts for 75%
  2. Toxic multinodular goitre
  3. Toxic adenoma
  4. Thyroiditis
  5. Drugs (amiodarone )
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What % of hyperthyroidism is graves?

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75

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Gestational thyrotoxicosis?

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Placental beta human chorionic gonadotrophin act like TSH

20
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Symptom control for graves?

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Beta blockers, propranolol, not in asthmatics

21
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Medical therapy for hyperthyroidism

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Carbimazole or propylthiouracil
18 months to 2 year.
Rare side effect- agranulocytosis

22
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Long term cure medication?

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1/3

23
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Severe thyroid eye disease?

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Worsens with radioiodine

24
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Which hormone takes longer to re-equilibrium?

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TSH, monitor T4

25
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Thyroid eye disease treatment?

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Radiotherapy, immunosuppressive steroid-sparing agents, pulsed iv methylpred oral prednisolone, orbital decompression, eyelid surgery, stop smoking

26
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Thyroid storm causes?

A

Multisystem condition
Surgery childbirth
Acute severe illness: PE, stroke, diabetic ketoacidosis, infection trauma

27
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Thyroiditis?

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Mild thyrotoxicosis, may use beta blockers
Then long hypothyroid phase, may use thyroxine.
Triggered by viral or pregnancy

28
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Drugs that affect thyroid function?

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Lithium- inhibits thyroid hormone secretion synthesis

and amiodarone

29
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Thyroid nodule, cancer percentage?

A

5

30
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How to treat toxic adenoma or toxic multinodular goitre?

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Short term medical therapy then radioiodine

31
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Causes of hypothyroidism?

A
  1. Graves
  2. Toxic Multinodular goitre
  3. Toxic Adenoma
  4. Thyroiditis
  5. Drugs
32
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Thyroid eye disease may be graves in what percent of the cases?

A

20

33
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Goitre with a bruit is?

A

Graves

34
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To test for graves what scan should you do and what would you find?

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Thyroid uptake scan, darker areas where increased activity

35
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What percent after radioiodine risk hypothyroidism?

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40%

36
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When cant you use radioiodine?

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Not in pregnant, breast feeding, in severe thyroid eye disease

37
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In order to do thyroidectomy patient must first be?

A

Euthyroid

38
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Treatment for a toxic adenoma or toxic multinodular goitre?

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Short term medical therapy and then radioiodine

39
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Features of thyroid storm?

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Graves
Thyroid eye disease
Goitre
140 bpm<
High pyrexia
Atrial dysrhytmias
Ventricular dysfunction
Heart failure
CNS agitation/delirium
Vomiting
Diarrhoea
Heaptocellular dysfunction
40
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Consider thyroiditis in following patients?

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If pregnant/ within 1 year post partum- increase risk of t1d
Very tender thyroid
Thyroid status does not fit lab
Not graves
Current/recurrent treatment of immunomodulatory meds

41
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How long does TSH take to change?

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6 weeks

42
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Further investigations for graves?

A

Thyroid autoantibodies

Thyroid uptake scan

43
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Radioactive iodine treatment?

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Radiation kills thyroid cells,

First do medical therapy until euthyroid

44
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How many people after radioactive iodine risk hypothyroidism?

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40%

45
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What are the risks with thyroid surgery?

A 
Anaesthetic
Neck scar
Hypothyroidism
Hypoparathyroidism
Vocal cord palsy

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