Cushings syndrome, Causes,Treatment
Cushing's syndrome involves a group of diseases in which there is a long-term chronic effects on the body of excess hormones of the adrenal cortex, regardless of the reason that caused the increase in the amount of these hormones in the blood.
The cause of C
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Hyperaldosteronism
Hyperaldosteronism - a condition in which the enhanced production of aldosterone by the adrenal cortex. Increased concentrations of aldosterone in the body accompanied by an increase in blood pressure and muscle weakness (myasthenia gravis).
The reason for enhanced production of aldosterone in the adrena
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ObesityObesity - a chronic disease in which there is an accumulation of excess body fat. In men, obesity is the accumulation of adipose tissue over 20% of body weight in women - more than 25%.
Now define overweight by body mass index. Body mass index by dividing weight of a person believed in kilograms by height in meters squ
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Insulinoma,Treatment
Insulinoma is a tumor of the endocrine cells of the islets of the pancreas that produce the hormone insulin. The frequency of this tumor is about 8 cases per million people. Most often it is a benign tumor, about 10% of malignant insulinoma.
Insulinomas occur in children and young pati
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Hypopituitarism syndrome is a disease characterized by low precipitation and function of the anterior pituitary or adenohypophysis. The pituitary gland or pituitary consists of two parts front and back. In the anterior pituitary hormones are six products (ACTH, prolactin, growth hormone, follitropin, and thyrotropin lyutropin). When hypopituitarism production of pituitary hormones is sharply reduced or disappears. As a result of sharply declining fu
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Diabetes insipidus - Causes and Treatment
Diabetes insipidus - a disease caused by insufficient production of antidiuretic hormone vasopressin.
Vasopressin with oxytocin accumulate in the posterior pituitary, but
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FRONTAL HYPEROSTOSIS - Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment
Syndrome of Morgagni-Stewart-Morel - a disease in which there are obesity, a thickening of the inner plate of the frontal bone and virilization.
Virilization (from the Latin virilis - male) - the appearance of male characteristics in women under the influence of male sex hormone androgen.
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