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Luckyall
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05/25/07 - 12:34 AM

lets see whos giving it a shot smiling face

18 y.o female c/o fatigue, acnea , hirsutism. mild hypertensive, hypo-k emia, plasma renin decr. serum corticotropin incr, urinary free cortisol incr. whas the deficiency?

Edited by Luckyall on 05/25/07 - 12:50 AM

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05/25/07 - 12:46 AM

need a clarification luckyall: are u talking about urinary free cortisol or its metabolites (17OH steroids)??

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Luckyall
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05/25/07 - 12:51 AM

urinary free cortisol...

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05/25/07 - 12:56 AM

if urinary free cortisol is increased, then the pathology must lie at the glucocorticoid receptor

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05/25/07 - 09:30 AM

silver wrote:
if urinary free cortisol is increased, then the pathology must lie at the glucocorticoid receptor

Agree

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05/25/07 - 01:10 PM

Answer plz ?? smiling face

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05/25/07 - 08:09 PM

what happened to this scenario? raised eyebrow

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Luckyall
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05/25/07 - 09:09 PM

Good job, guys! wink

Full Glucocorticoids( GC) resistance is lethal, but partial GC resistance causes a compensatory incr ACTH ---> incr Cortisol production---> maintaining normal Cortisol effects.
Incr. ACTH--->Incr. Adrenal Androgens prod---> acnea& hirsutism
Incr ACTH----->incr. steroid precursors---> incr MineraloCortic. effects ---> HTN & hypoK--emia---> decr Renin
Good job!

RayBerg
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05/25/07 - 09:28 PM

Thanks for the scenarios Lucky. Keep up the good job everyone!

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