Your Name: Melinda Gilbert

Theme: Endocrinology

 

OPTION LIST

 

A

Addison’s

I

Pseudodementia

B

Cerebrovascular disease

J

Prostrate cancer

C

Conn’s syndrome

K

Secondary hypertension

D

De Quervain’s thyroiditis

L

Secondary hyperaldosteronism

E

Diabetes Insipidus

M

Type 1 Diabetes

F

Hasimoto’s thyroiditis

N

Type 2 Diabetes

G

Insulinoma

O

 

H

Phaeochromocytoma

P

 

 

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

 

1. A 39 year old female was found to have antibodies to thyroglobin.  The likely diagnosis?

 

 

2. A man presents with increased frequency of urination at night.  He’d also noticed some muscle weakness and problems with his eye sight.  Of note is a history of cirrhosis and hypertension

 

 

3. A 68 year female is taken to her GP by her daughter, who describes how her mother has become increasingly confused over the last few months and has shown some strange behaviour.  The patient complains of double vision, sweating and weakness, which she has put down to old age, and says a cup of sweet tea cures!

 

 

4. A 22 year old male medical student was found to have high blood pressure.  He also complains of having frequent palpitations, some weight loss and a mild tremor

 

 

5. A 30 year old women is brought into A&E unconscious, with severe hypotension.  Her family say that she’d been feeling unwell for sometime and had become increasingly depressed.  It was noted that her palmar creases were somewhat pigmented

 

 

ANSWERS

1. F

2. L

3. G

4. H

5. A