Diabetic ketoacidosis — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What type of acidosis will a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis experience?_____

Answer: high anion gap metabolic acidosis

Flashcard 2: In the treatment of Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemia State, aggressive _____tonic saline fluids are indicated

Answer: iso

Flashcard 3: What is the cause of metabolic acidosis in a patient with diabetes mellitus?_____

Answer: Increased production of ketoacids

Flashcard 4: Does hyperosmolar hyperglycemia non-ketotic syndrome present with acidosis? Why? _____

Answer: No, ketone production is inhibited by presence of insulin

Flashcard 5: One of the most feared complications of type 2 diabetes is _____

Answer: hyperosmolar hyperglycemia non-ketotic syndrome

Flashcard 6: Kallmann syndrome

Answer: defective migration of GnRH cells

Extra: anosmia, lack of secondary sex characteristicsdecreased: GnRH, FSH, LH, testosterone, sperm count

Flashcard 7: hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

Answer:

Extra:  decreased: LH, testosterone 

Flashcard 8: primary hypogonadism

Answer:

Extra: increased: LH decreased: testosterone 

Flashcard 9: androgen insensitivity syndrome

Answer: defect in andogen receptor

Extra: female external genitalia, rudimentary vagina, internal testes, scant sexual hairincreased: testosterone, LH, estrogen46, XY i.e. normal male

Flashcard 10: 5α-reductase deficiency

Answer:

Extra: inability to convert testosterone to DHTmale internal genitalia, ambiguous external genitalia until pubertynormal: testosterone, estrogen increased: LH (or normal) AR