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Diabetic foot disease is a complication of diabetes caused by damage to what

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Nerves and blood vessels

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Diabetic man has: active ulceration, spreading infection, critical ischaemia, gangrene or unexplained hot, red swollen foot with or without the presence of pain. Previously had signs of peripheral vascular disease. What is this?

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Diabetic foot disease

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Why might a diabetic man have a fracture or dislocation in the foot with no preceding history of significant trauma?

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He has active foot disease

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Pathology/ cause of type 1 diabetes?

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Autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells, so no insulin made

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Why do type 1 diabetics need injections Vs oral route of insulin?

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Peptide hormones like insulin, cannot be taken orally

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What happens when type 1 diabetics don’t get their insulin?

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Excessively wasted
Develop ketoacidosis
Coma
Death

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Liver involvement in diabetes?

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It thinks you’re starving, so it goes into gluconeogenesis mode

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When is ketoacidosis?

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When plasma pH falls below 7.1
(That becomes life threatening, death within hours).
Normal is usually 7.4

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Why might tissues become insensitive to insulin in type II diabetes?

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Abnormal response of insulin receptors, or reduction in their number

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Why is type 2 diabetes associated with obesity?

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Chronic exposure to high levels of nutrients

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What is the diagnostic criterion for diabetes?

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Hyperglycaemia

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What test diagnoses diabetes?

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Glucose tolerance test

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What results of glucose tolerance test indicates diabetes?

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Patient ingests glucose load after fasting BG is measured. BG will normally return to fasting levels within an hour, but if elevation after two hours, = diabetes.

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What unit to measure plasma glucose concentration? (In the UK).

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Millimolar

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Long term complications or hyperglycaemia?

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Retinopathy
Neuropathy
Cardiovascular disease

Also nephropathy

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Why potential blindness in diabetes?

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Retinopathy- destruction of retina

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Why are foot ulcers a problem with diabetics?

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Shoes rubbing, they don’t feel it, develop ulcers, ulcers become infected, and the bacteria LOVES the high blood glucose. So wounds difficult to treat therefore amputations

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Why would type 2 ever take exogenous insulin? Bc they’re still producing insulin, after all, sometimes even more!

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Beta cells in the pancreas sometimes burn out cuz they’ve been churning out insulin for so long, bc of high BG

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What are the stages of hypoglycaemia?

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Inhibition of insulin secretion
Glucagon, epinephrine and GH secreted
Cortisol secreted
Cognitive days function
Lethargy
Coma
Convulsions
Permanent brain damage and death

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Coma at what BG level, and death when?

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Coma at like 1.7mM
Death at like 0.6mM

Other hormone secreted like 3.7

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Growth during the foetal period is largely controlled by what

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Nutritional intake, thyroid hormones, and insulin.

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When does growth hormone become significant?

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Around 10 months of age

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Why is there a spike of growth hormone during puberty?

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Androgens and oestrogens

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How do androgens and oestrogens terminate growth during puberty?

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Causing epiphyses of the long bones to fuse

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During puberty, before androgens and oestrogens terminate growth by causing epiphyses of long bones, which hormones promote bone elongation and increased height, weight and body mass?
Growth hormone IGF-I
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Which hormone is a great influence on growth at the start, but steadily less so with increasing age?
Thyroid hormones
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Pathology of congenital hypothyroidism?
Babies born normal size but unable to produce own th
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Signs of congenital hypothyroidism
If left untreated, retarded growth, retain infantile facial features
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What affect does TH have on growth hormone?
Permissive Loss of permissive effect severely impacts on GH action.
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Signs/ appearance of hypothyroid children Vs children deficient in GH?
HT children retain infantile proportions, whereas children deficient in GH are proportionally normal, just small (like a leprechaun)
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How long before someone might starts to notice the affects of acromegaly?
Like 5-10 years, maybe need to cut off ring etc
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Why might the rest of pituitary function be compromised in acromegaly?
Compression of pituitary gland due to growth of cells. Eg thyroid hormone function lost
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Pathology of Cushing’s syndrome
Excess corticosteroids
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Biggest cause of Cushing’s syndrome (not equal to disease)
Taking excess steroids eg for asthma or IBD
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What is the pathology behind Cushing’s DISEASE?
Pituitary tumour
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Difference in pathology of gigantism vs acromegaly?
Hyper-secretion of GH in both. But in gigantism, due to a pituitary tumour BEFORE Epiphyseal plates of long bones close. = excessive growth. Vs after
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Classic sign of acromegaly to do with feet?
Adult feet getting bigger
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How to treat gigantism and agromegaly? (2)
Surgery to remove tumour Somatostatin analogues
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Why somatostatin analogues to treat acromegaly?
Somatostatin aka GHIH is a hormone that inhibits GH
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Is there height/ longitudinal growth in acromegaly?
No
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Unusually small stature is to do with hormones. What are the 5 reasons?
Deficiency of GHRH Deficiency of GH Genetic mutations of GH receptor (can’t respond to growth signal) Precocious puberty- sec hormones cause long bones to fuse early Hypothyroid dwarfism (loss of permissive effect of TH on GH)
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Why does injury and disease stunt growth?
Because if protein catabolism (glucocorticoid effects)
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Pathology of Graves’ disease
It’s hyperthyroidism, where the individual produces antibodies that mimic the action of TSH
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Levels of TSH and T4 in graves?
High T4 low TSH (bc of negative feedback)
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Why is there muscle weakness/ weight loss in hyperthyroidism?
There’s increased protein catabolism
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Both Hashimoto’s disease and graves is autoimmune. Difference?
Hashimoto = autoimmune attack of the thyroid gland Graves = autoimmune, replication of TSH hormone
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Does iodine deficiency cause hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism?
Hypothyroidism
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Both hypo and hyper thyroid Ian is accompanied by significant enlargement of the thyroid gland. What causes this?
“Goitre” Caused by an increase in trophies action of TSH on thyroid follicular cells, or over-activity as a result of autoimmune disease like graves therefore hypertrophy
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What’s the most common cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, resulting in deficiency of aldosterone and cortisol?
Defects in the 21-hydroxylase enzyme that is required to synthesise both aldosterone and cortisol
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What does deficiency in aldosterone and cortisol result in?
Associated disruption of sale and glucose balance
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Why are babies born with deficiency in 21 hydroxylase (leading to deficiency in aldosterone and cortisol) lead to being born with malformed genitalia?
Because all the cholesterol in the adrenal cortex ends up getting channeled into the production of the sex hormones. So exposed to much higher concentrations of sex hormones than others is.
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How quickly do babies become ill after birth when they have a deficit in 21-hydroxylase ?
Like very very ill within days
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Hypersecretion of cortisol is what disorder?
Cushing’s
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Cushing’s disease Vs Cushing’s syndrome?
Both = hypersecretion of cortisol Disease = tumour in adrenal cortex -directly more cortisol Syndrome = tumour in pituitary gland - hyper secreting ACTH
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If Cushing’s disease is a rise in cortisol, which has catabolic action, why is there a distribution of fat ie moon face and on the neck?
There *are* wasting of extremities, but for unknown reasons, fat is redistributed to face and trunk. So far on the trunk, but still thin arms and lega
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Hyposecretion of cortisol is associated with what disease?
Addison’s disease
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Pathology of Addison’s disease?
Autoimmune destruction of adrenal cortex
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How to treat addisonian crises/ adrenal crises?
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What is addisonian crises/ adrenal crises?
low cortisol
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Affect of alcohol, caffeine and lack of sleep on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis?
Disinhibits. Removes negative feedback , causing an increase in cortisol release.
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Why does stress lead to further infection
Because stress leads to more cortisol being released, which suppresses the immune system.
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Why are you cold with hypothyroidism?
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Often beta blockers are used in the management of hyperthyroidism. When is this contraindicated?
Asthma
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What drug for weight management?
Orlistat
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What does orlistat do?
Help with weight management, by inhibiting pancreatic and gastric lipases, so inhibits fat absorption
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Usually prescription for orlistat?
Usual prescription does 120mg 3 times daily
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If you eat something fatty, and take orlistat?
Very fatty diarrhoea

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