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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 #
Differential diagnoses for the neuro-ophthalmologic finding of diplopia.
Neoplastic: 
 • Intraorbital meningioma 
 • Pituitary adenoma
neuro-ophthalmologic finding of diplopia ... Pituitary adenoma (GH ... VI palsy) #Diplopia
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
enlargement - If GH ... • GH stimulates ... adenomas are mixed GH ... 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
Diplopia - Differential Diagnosis
Step 1: Consider Stroke
Step 2: Diplopia PLUS
 - Cavernous Sinus Syndrome
 - Infection
Diplopia - Differential ... Stroke Step 2: Diplopia ... Step 3: Isolated Diplopia ... to consider #Diplopia
Algorithm for the Evaluation and Localization of Diplopia #Diagnosis #EM #Ophtho #Diplopia #Localization #Cranial #Nerve #Algorithm
Localization of Diplopia ... Diagnosis #EM #Ophtho #Diplopia
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Diplopia: Diplopia has been explored previously on ddxof. The earlier algorithm
Evaluation of Diplopia ... : Diplopia has been ... etiologic causes of diplopia ... Diagnosis #EM #Ophth #Diplopia
Pituitary Mass Effects - Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
 • Pituitary turnors are almost always a benign
following order; GH ... Hydrocephalus • Diplopia
Important Causes of Diplopia 
TIER 1-CRITICAL
Basilar artery thrombosis, Botulism, Basilar meningitis, Aneurysmn
TIER 2-EMERGENT:
Vertebral dissection, Myasthenia gravis,
Important Causes of Diplopia ... Orbital apex mass #Diplopia
Feedback Loop: Prolactin (PRL)
 • PRL levels exhibit diurnal, menstrual, and age-related variation
 • TRH has
Prolactin #PRL #FeedbackLoop