Endocrinology causes COPY Flashcards
Causes of thyrotoxicosis with low radioactive iodine uptake
- Painless thyroiditis (silent thyroiditis, lymphocytic thyroiditis, subacute
lymphocytic thyroiditis & postpartum thyroiditis) - Subacute (de Quervain’s) thyroiditis (subacute granulomatous thyroiditis)
- iatrogenic (eg, lithium, amiodarone, iodine, interferon alpha, interleukin 2)
- Factitious ingestion of levothyroxine (T4) &/or triiodothyronine (T3)
- Struma ovarii
- Acute thyroiditis
- Extensive thyroid cancer metastases
Causes of central diabetes insipidus
- Autoimmune hypophysitis (idiopathic)
- Malignancy (metastatic or primary)
- Neurosurgery
- Infiltration
- sarcoidosis,
- histiocytosis X,
- lymphocytic hypophysitis,
- granulomatosis with polyangiitis,
- IgG4-related disease
- Trauma
- Following correction of supraventricular tachycardia
- Hypoxic encephalopathy
- Anorexia nervosa
- Sheehan syndrome
- Familial
Graves disease (specific signs)
- Clubbing
- Thyroid bruit
- Exophthalmos
- Pretibial myxedema
Graves disease associations
- Ophthalmopathy with exophthalmos/proptosis
- Skin abnormalities such as pretibial myxedema
- Digital clubbing (acropachy)
Lower-than-expected levels of HbA1c (due to reduced red blood cell lifespan)
- Sickle-cell anaemia
- GP6D deficiency
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- Hbc, HbS
- Hemolytic anemia
- Blood loss
- Blood transfusion
- Renal failure
- Dapsone
- Pregnancy
Higher-than-expected levels of HbA1c (due to increased red blood cell lifespan)
- Vitamin B12/folic acid deficiency
- Iron-deficiency anaemia
- Splenectomy
- HbF or HbG
- Hypertriglyceridemia
- Alcohol
- High Bilirubin
- Aspirin
- Splenectomy, aplastic Anemia
Causes of secondary amenorrhea (after excluding pregnancy)
- hypothalamic amenorrhea (e.g. Stress, excessive exercise)
- hyperprolactinaemia
- thyrotoxicosis
- polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
- premature ovarian failure
hypothyroidism may also cause amenorrhea
Causes of low estradiol and low or inappropriately normal FSH and LH (hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism)
- hypothyroidism
- hyperprolactinemia
- hypothalamic (stress, weight loss, exercise)
- pituitary (tumor, Sheehan syndrome)
A progesterone challenge test is performed in the above situations, if:
- No bleeding following a progesterone challenge indicates low estrogen because of hypothalamic hypogonadism; measure estradiol level to confirm.
- Bleeding following progesterone challenge indicates a normal estrogen state and suggests possible hyperandrogenism (e.g., PCOS).
Oral diabetes medications that do not cause weight gain or hypoglycemia
- biguanides (such as metformin),
- sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors,
- the glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonists
- dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (such as sitagliptin).
Agents which interfere with thyroxine absorption
- binding agents such as cholestyramine and sevelamer,
- iron sulphate
- proton pump inhibitors.
Causes of hypoparathyroidism
- Idiopathic,
- DiGeorge syndrome,
- hypomagnesemia,
- secondary to surgery or neck irradiation
Causes of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
- Lithium
- Other medications (demeclocycline, cidofovir, foscarnet, didanosine, amphotericin B, ifosfamide, ofloxacin)
- Electrolyte disorders (hypercalcemia, hypokalemia)
- Urinary tract obstruction
- Sickle cell nephropathy
- Amyloidosis
- Sjögren syndrome
- Nephronophthisis
- Cystinosis
Causes of gynaecomastia
- physiological: normal in puberty
- syndromes with androgen deficiency: Kallman’s, Klinefelter’s
- testicular failure: e.g. mumps
- testicular cancer e.g. seminoma secreting HCG
- ectopic tumour secretion
- hyperthyroidism
- liver disease
- haemodialysis
- drugs:
- spironolactone (most common drug cause)
- digoxin
- cimetidine
- cannabis
- finasteride
- gonadorelin analogues e.g. Goserelin, buserelin (Goserelin is a gonadorelin analogue used in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. )
- oestrogens, anabolic steroids
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Drugs that induce gynaecomastia include inhibitors of testosterone synthesis:
- ketoconazole
- metronidazole
- cimetidine
- etomidate, and
- cisplatin.
Oestrogens:
- digitalis, and
- oral contraceptive pill.
Other drugs in which the mechanism is not known include:
- isoniazid
- diazepam
- omeprazole
- calcium-channel blockers
- ACE inhibitors
- amiodarone
- tricyclic antidepressants
- busulfan
- marijuana
- heroin, and
- spironolactone.
Causes of low TSH and low free T4
- Central hypothyroidism
- Subclinical thyrotoxicosis
- Euthyroid sick syndrome
- Medications
- dopamine
- high-dose glucocorticoids
- octreotide
Drug causes of raised prolactin
- metoclopramide,
- domperidone
- phenothiazines
- haloperidol
- very rare: SSRIs, opioids