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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
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
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
Sellar / Pituitary Mass - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Adenoma - Primary Anterior Pituitary
 - Secreting
Prolactin • GH
Hand Arthritides - Differential Diagnosis by Location and Features

The Painful Hand!  Wish I would’ve thought
prior to my first MSK ... Diagnosis #Location #MSK
Short Stature - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Normal Variant, Normal Puberty Onset (BA = CA)
 • Familial Short
Cushing's Disease • GH
Radius and Ulna Anatomy

By @rev.med

#Radius #Ulna #Anatomy #Bones #orthopedics #MSK
#orthopedics #MSK
Clarke's Test (Patellar Grind Test)

Indicates Patellofemoral dysfunction.
 - Patient with knee in extension. Push posterior on
of patella then ask ... Patellofemoral #msk