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Feedback Loop: Growth Hormone (GH)
Growth Hormone:
 • Liver -> GHR activates JAK-STAT pathway -> Incr IGF1
Growth Hormone (GH ... /Symptoms: • GH ... abn lipid • GH ... GrowthHormone #GH ... #FeedbackLoop #
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
GH stimulates ... adenomas are mixed GH ... Differential Diagnosis ... level (↑Sens) - GH ... (Lanreotide) ± GH
Growth Hormone Excess - Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Acromegaly and gigantism share the same pathophysiology
time of onset of GH ... GH excess prior ... GH excess after ... GrowthHormone #GH
Sellar / Pituitary Mass - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Adenoma - Primary Anterior Pituitary
 - Secreting
Pituitary Mass - Differential ... Prolactin • GH ... SellarMass #Pituitary #Differential
Feedback Loop: Prolactin (PRL)
 • PRL levels exhibit diurnal, menstrual, and age-related variation
 • TRH has
Prolactin #PRL #FeedbackLoop
Acromegaly 
Caused by over-secretion of growth hormone (GH) from the pituitary gland. 
The condition is rare
growth hormone (GH
Short Stature - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Normal Variant, Normal Puberty Onset (BA = CA)
 • Familial Short
Short Stature - Differential ... Cushing's Disease • GH ... #ShortStature #Differential
Algorithmic Approach to Hypothyroidism - Differential Diagnosis and Management Framework

Central Hypothyroidism (Secondary or tertiary) ↓TSH, ↓FT4
Hypothyroidism - Differential ... ↓FT4 • Post-GH ... Hypothyroidism #Differential
Differential diagnoses for the neuro-ophthalmologic finding of diplopia.
Neoplastic: 
 • Intraorbital meningioma 
 • Pituitary adenoma
Differential diagnoses ... Pituitary adenoma (GH ... #Diplopia #Differential
Tall Stature - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Normal Growth (BA=CA)
 • Familial Tall Stature
 • XYY Syndrome
Obese BMI
Tall Stature - Differential ... Puberty Onset • GH ... #TallStature #Differential