ENDOCRINOLOGY

1. What conditions cause thirst and polyuria? How will you manage one of them?

2. Discuss the principles of management of a 60 year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus

3. List the causes of coma in a patient with diabetes mellitus. Briefly describe the clinical features and outline the management of a 20 year old man with diabeteic ketoacidotic coma.

4. List 5 long term complications of diabetes mellitus. Describe the clinical presentation and management of diabetic ketoacidosis in a 30 year-old Nigerian woman.

5. A known diabetic patient presented in casuality department in coma. How would you differentiate clinically whether the patient is in hyperglycaemic or hypoglycaemic coma?

6. List the possible causes of coma in a patient with diabetes mellitus. Briefly describe the clinical features and outline the management of a 20 year old man with diabetic ketoacidotic coma

7. Compare and contrast the clnical features and management of Type I and Type II diabetes mellitus.

8. Enumerate symptoms and signs that might suggest that a goiter is toxic. What are the modalities of treatment for a goiter?

9. A 35 years old woman presents with goiter. Enumerate symptoms signs that might suggest that the goiter is txic. Describe how you manage the patient.

10. Describe a. Treatment modalities in patients with Graves disease

b. Risk factors for diabetic foot disease

11. treatment would you give a patient with a. A mild diabetic of middle age

12. Write short notes on the following a. Thyrotoxic crisis b. Turners syndrome c. Syndrome X d. Syndrome X (Reavens syndrome) e. Metabolic syndrome X f. Enumerate the risk factors for diabetic foot and outline the principles of management. g. Oral glucose tolerance test h. Cutaneous mabifestations of diabetes melitus

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Outline and explain the differences between a. Hypoglycaemic & hyperglycaemic coma

13. Describe the symptoms & signs you would expect to find in apatient with a. Diabetic foot