Abnormal Growth in Peds Flashcards

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What factors are evaluated in Auxology?

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Compare growth patterns with norms
Changes ifn height-wt-head circ
Genetic potential
Normal vs Pathological dev.

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What is the normal growth pattern?

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Predictable Progression
Pulsatile
Seasonal

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What are the measurements that are factored into Auxology?

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Weight-length-head circ
Growth Charts
-WHO children

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What needs to be considered when taking a history in Auxology?

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Weight-lenght-head circ at birth
Prenatal history
interval growth points
past medical history
Dietary history
Devt History
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What factors are considered in body proportions?

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Upper seg to lower seg
Increased in turner syndrome, rickets and achondroplasia
Dec in marfan Synd
Arm span to height

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What constitutes over/underweight in BMI?

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Overweight = 85th-95th percentile
Obese= >95th %ile
Underweight

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What constitutes Failure to thrive?

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Weight

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What is the most common underlying cause of Failure to thrive?

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Insufficient Nurition
Inad Intake 
Inad Abs
Inc Urinary/intesinal loss
Inc Requirements
Ineffective Utilization
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What is the difference between Wasting vs Stunting

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Wasting: ###
Stunting: Normal at birth: Weight reduced but not height. later height lags, last head circ.

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What Diagnostic Tests are used to evaluate Failure to thrive?

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Labs: CBC, Urinalysis, BUN/Cr, Lead, LFTs
Albumin/ALk phos, Ca and Phos if severe
Imaging: Upper GI series 
Swallowing function
Radionucleotide gastric emptying scans
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What are the 5 Questions used in Eval of Tall Stature?

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Height abn for Pop? 
>97.7th
Growth abn rapid? 
-H/Ag dev up 2 major height %ile
Growth within range of Fam?
-Mid-parental ht
Evidence of Accel Growth?
-Adv Bone Age?
Dysmorphic Features found?
-Disorders or Syndromes?
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How is mid parental height Calculated?

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Girl: ((Fath-5in)+ Moth Ht)/2
Boy ((Mother+5in)+ Fath Ht)/2
Target Mid parental ht +/- 2 SD

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What is the most common Cause of large for gestational age infants?

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Maternal DM

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What are more common Diseases of overgrowth in infancy?

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Cerebral Gigantism

Beckwith-Wiedman Synd

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What are the Endocrine Disorders that can cause Growth abnormalities?

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Precocious Puberty
GH excess
Hypothyroidism
Sex Hormone Deficiency or Insensitivity
Familial Glucocorticoid Def
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What are causes of Precocious Puberty?

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Central GDPP
-HT or Pit
Peripheral GDIP
-Congenital Adrenal HP
-Testicular or Ovarian tumors
-McCune Albright synd
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What are features of kids with Precocious Puberty?

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More in girls
Advanced Bone age
Early Epiphyseal closure
Tall child but short as adult

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What are chaicteristics of a Pt with GH Excess?

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Rare and Genetic
Height >3-4 SD
Normal Bone age
Elevated IGF-1, IGFBP-3, Abn MRI
Tx- Surgery, Rad or Meds
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What are features of Hyperthyroidism?

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Clinically similar to adults 
Diffuse Goiter
Adv bone age
Low TSH, High T3 and T4
Tx normalizes growth
20
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What are the features of Sex hormone Deficiency or Insensitivity?

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Def of Test or Estrogen
Permanent Hypogonadism
Delayed Skeletal maturation
EunuchoidProportions
-long legs
-Red UL segment ratio
Low sitting height
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What are the features of Familial Glucocorticoid Deficiency

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Rare
1^ adrenal insuff
High ACTH and Low Cort
-excessive adrenal androgens
Hypoglycemia, seizures, and hyperpigmentation
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What are the non-endocrine disorders that lead to Abnormal growth?

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Exogenous Obesity
Melanocortin-4 receptor mutation
Klinefelter Synd
47XYY synd
Marfan
Homocysteineuria
23
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What are features of Exogenous Obesity?

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Tall, early onset pubery
Low GH prod
BMI >95th percentile
Genetic and Endo Obesity usually short

24
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What are features of Melanocortin 4 receptor Mutation?

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Most common Monogenic cause of Obesity
Hyperphagia, Hyperinsulinemia
Preserved Repro Function

25
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What are features of Klinefelter Synd?

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2 or more X chromosomes in Males
Long legs, short trunk
Small Testes, gynecomastia
Mental disability
Rx = Testosterone
26
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What are features of 47 XYY Synd?

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Problems with language and motor
Large teeth, tremor, incoordination
ADHD and Autism
No Rx Required for tall stature

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What are features of Marfan Synd?

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AD 
Arachnodactyly
Joint Hyperextension
Scoliosis, Pectus Excavatum
Lense Subluxation
Heart Valve Abn
Normal Bone age
28
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What are features of Homocysteinuria?

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Marfanoid Features
Intellectual Disability
High Homocystein levels
Risk for Thrombotic Events

29
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What are features of Von Recklinghausen Dis?

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