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Feedback Loop: Prolactin (PRL)
 • PRL levels exhibit diurnal, menstrual, and age-related variation
 • TRH has
proliferation and maturation ... #FeedbackLoop #endocrinology ... #pathophysiology ... #pituitary
Pituitary Mass Effects - Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
 • Pituitary turnors are almost always a benign
Pituitary Mass Effects ... Pituitary adenomas ... adenomas that require treatment ... #SideEffects #endocrinology ... mnemonic #GLFTAP #pathophysiology
Feedback Loop: Growth Hormone (GH)
Growth Hormone:
 • Liver -> GHR activates JAK-STAT pathway -> Incr IGF1
Symptoms: • GH deficiency ... #FeedbackLoop #endocrinology ... #pathophysiology ... #pituitary
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
initiation of nutrition ... Hypo-Mg2+ • Vitamin deficiency ... • Vitamin D deficiency ... hyperparathyroidism Treatment ... Differential #Diagnosis #Pathophysiology
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
malignancy Pathophysiology ... - GH-secreting pituitary ... • Pituitary ... Diagnosis #Management #Endocrinology ... #Treatment #Pathophysiology
Menstrual Cycle Physiology: Ovarian Cycle – Luteal Phase Explained
 • The LH surge can be thought
luteinization": the maturation ... hypothalamus and anterior pituitary ... #OvarianCycle #pathophysiology ... #LutealPhase #endocrinology
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency ... persons with poor nutrition ... : • Vitamin C deficiency ... vasculitis Treatment ... #Nutrition #Diagnosis
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... antibodies • Nutritional ... Deficiency: - ... Transverse Myelitis Treatment