Hormones Gone Wild
This area of the brain is the combining and coordination center for the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
The function of this anabolic hormone is to decrease blood glucose levels in the body.
What is insulin?
Clinical manifestations of this disease include: urticaria, angioedema, bronchospasms, and skin flushing.
What is anaphylaxis?
This altered inflammatory disease's exact cause is not known but is thought to be associated with an autoimmune triggering event that causes the body to not recognize "self".
What is systemic lupus erythematous?
The best way to prevent infection is to do this thing.
What is hand washing?
Grave's disease is the most common type of this disease/disorder.
What is hyperthyroidism?
This type of diabetes is due to insufficient insulin reserves in the pancreas due to an autoimmune destruction of the beta cells.
What is type 1 diabetes?
Clinical manifestations of this disease include: dysuria, urinary urgency, and urinary frequency. Sometimes pelvic pain.
What is a UTI?
This disease is an alteration in genetic chromosome number with females resulting in only a single X chromosome.
What is Turner syndrome?
Clinical manifestations of this body response is characterized by warm, red, swollen, and often times painful area of injury.
What is the inflammatory response?
This disorder of the pituitary gland is caused by excessive ADH production and results in dilutional hyponatremia.
What is SIADH (syndrome of inappropriate diuretic hormone)?
This acute complication of diabetes is characterized by hyperglycemia, ketosis, and metabolic acidosis, and is more commonly seen in patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus.
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
Clinical manifestations of this disease can include: severe headache, photophobia, and nuchal cord rigidity.
What is meningitis?
This neurological disease is characterized by antibodies that destroy the body's own myelin sheath in a process called demyelination.
What is multiple sclerosis?
Identify the following blood gas: pH 7.15, PaO2 75, PaCO2 50, and HCO3 22.
What is respiratory acidosis?
This disease may present with hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, hypotension, and hypoglycemia, and is often precipitated by stress or abrupt withdrawal of corticosteroids in a patient with chronic adrenal insufficiency.
What is Addison's disease?
A patient with symptoms of diaphoresis, pallor, tachycardia, and tremors is said to have this complication of diabetes.
What is hypoglycemia?
This disease is an alteration in perfusion in which the clinical manifestations include: peripheral edema, JVD, ascites, and abdominal pain.
What is right-sided heart failure?
This type of sensory disorder occurs when new blood vessels form under the retina that can leak and cause damage.
What is wet macular degeneration?
This type of electrolyte imbalance leads to muscle cramps, twitching, weakness, hypotension, and altered consciousness.
What is hyponatremia?
In this disorder, a deficiency of antidiuretic hormone or the kidneys’ inability to respond to it leads to excessive dilute urine and dehydration; the hormone involved is produced in the hypothalamus and stored in the posterior pituitary.
What is diabetes insipidus?
This long-term marker of glycemic control reflects the percentage of hemoglobin bound to glucose over the lifespan of red blood cells, typically indicating average blood glucose levels over the past 2–3 months.
What is hemoglobin A1C?
This common early clinical manifestation of Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease results from cyst expansion activating the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, often appearing before significant loss of kidney function.
What is hypertension?
This underlying process—initiated by endothelial injury and lipid accumulation—leads to plaque rupture and thrombus formation, ultimately occluding coronary arteries and causing an Myocardial infarction.
What is atherosclerosis?
In patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, this abnormal arterial blood gas finding is commonly seen as the disease progresses and reflects chronic carbon dioxide retention.
What is respiratory acidosis?