Thyroid Disease

Where is the thyroid located?

What does the thyroid gland produce?

Where is the recurrent laryngeal nerve located?

Which hormone important to thyroid regulation is released from the hypothalamus?

Where is thyroid stimulating hormone release?

What is iodide?

What is iodine?

What is needed to make thyroid hormones?

What is caused by abnormal hypothalamic/pituitary developlment which results in loss of normal TRH/TSH pathways?

What is the term for abnormal thyroid gland development?

What is the term for abnormal thyroid hormone synthesis or processing?

What are the clinical manifestations of congenital hypothyroidism?

Normal TSH excludes ____ hypothyroidism?

Lab values for primary hypothyroidism

Thyrotoxicosis is

What causes toxicosis

Graves disease is linked to which genetic factor?

High active antiretroviral therapy or alemtuzumab is associated with causing?

Patients are at risk for which disease 3x during the post partum period?

What is graves disease caused by?

Patient with Grave's disease will also have high levels of

S/S of Grave's disease

What is the most common cardiovascular manifestation of grave's disease?

If a patient has new onset a-fib and they are over 50 what shoudl you suspect?

What usually begins a year before thyrotoxicosis onset?

What lab values will you see with Grave's disease/hyperthyroidism?

What is the treatment options for grave's disease?

What is the first line treatment for graves?

When is propylthiouracil indicated?

s/s of thyroiditis

What is the treatment for thyroiditis?

Do you give antithyroid medications for thyroiditis?

Estrogen causes a rise in

hCG in the first trimester stimulates _____

Women who have a low dietary intake of iodide are more likely to give birth to a child with

Which drug can supress thyroid function?