Diabetes
Haematology
LH/ FSH
Females:
Males:
Source
AMC handbook of MCQ 2010
https://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcb135e/fsh-lh.html
- TIDM = autoimmune thyroiditis = coeliac disease = Addison's disease
- Metformin C/I in chronic renal failure
- Glitazones C/I in heart failure
Haematology
- Causes of secondary polycythaemia
- chronic lung diseases
- hypoxia
- renal tumour (produce too much erythropoietin)
- Splenomegaly occurs in primary polycythaemia, not secondary
LH/ FSH
Females:
- LH --> ovaries --> oestrogen ---> ovulation / thickening of endometrium
- --> progesterone --> follicle --> corpus luteum
- --> endometrium receptive to implantation
- FSH --> ovaries --(follicular phase)--> oestrogen
- --(luteal phase)--> progesterone
Males:
- LH --> testosterone
- FSH --> spermatogenesis
Source
AMC handbook of MCQ 2010
https://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcb135e/fsh-lh.html