Roxanita
10-19-2004, 01:01 AM
Q-1
A 25 y.o. woman has not had her peiriod for the last 8 months. She is 5'2" and weighs 90 pounds. A urine pregnancy test is negative. She states that she has been trying to lose weight for her upcoming wedding. You order a battery of tests and give the patient an intramuscular injection of progesterone. Ten days later the patient return to your office and reports that she had no withdrawal bleeding. Laboratory tests reveal the following: serum prolactin is normal, serum FSH and LH are low, serum TSH is normal, serum estradiol is low, and serum cortisol and growth hormone are increased. Based on these findings, you strongly suspect the patient has...
A) Primary ovarian disease
B) Hypopituitarism
C) Secondary hypothyroidism
D) Weight loss syndrome
E) Cushing's syndrome
Q-2
Follicular hyperkeratosis, night blindness, and a hemorrhagic diathesis are expected in a patient...
A) with Cystic Fibrosis
B) with Scurvy
C) with Hypothyroidism
D) who is a pure vegan
E) who is bulimic
Q-3
Which of the signs or symptoms characterize a fat soluble rather than a water soluble vitamin deficiency?
a) perifollicular hemorrhage
b) bone, pain and tetany
c) peripheral neuropathy
d) ophthalmoplegia, confusion and ataxia
e) hyperpigmentation in sun exposed areas
A 25 y.o. woman has not had her peiriod for the last 8 months. She is 5'2" and weighs 90 pounds. A urine pregnancy test is negative. She states that she has been trying to lose weight for her upcoming wedding. You order a battery of tests and give the patient an intramuscular injection of progesterone. Ten days later the patient return to your office and reports that she had no withdrawal bleeding. Laboratory tests reveal the following: serum prolactin is normal, serum FSH and LH are low, serum TSH is normal, serum estradiol is low, and serum cortisol and growth hormone are increased. Based on these findings, you strongly suspect the patient has...
A) Primary ovarian disease
B) Hypopituitarism
C) Secondary hypothyroidism
D) Weight loss syndrome
E) Cushing's syndrome
Q-2
Follicular hyperkeratosis, night blindness, and a hemorrhagic diathesis are expected in a patient...
A) with Cystic Fibrosis
B) with Scurvy
C) with Hypothyroidism
D) who is a pure vegan
E) who is bulimic
Q-3
Which of the signs or symptoms characterize a fat soluble rather than a water soluble vitamin deficiency?
a) perifollicular hemorrhage
b) bone, pain and tetany
c) peripheral neuropathy
d) ophthalmoplegia, confusion and ataxia
e) hyperpigmentation in sun exposed areas