Med School Radio

When a patient presents to you with pain and cramping during exercise but is able to exercise after rest and ingestion of sucrose this indicates McArdle disease.

If a patient is producing too much aldosterone and hydrogen ions are being sent out with potassium would the environment become more basic or more acidic?

If you have a problem with the activity of glucokinase, the beta cells of the pancreas will not be able to respond to glucose and produce insulin

Prolactinomas are treated with dopamine agonists - E.g., bromocriptine or cabergoline

Diabetic patients should receive selective beta blockers (selective beta 1 antagonists)

If you don’t get enough sun you might experience bone pain as a result of a problem in normal vitamin D metabolism

If a patient comes to you with hoarseness and difficulty breathing it could be a lingual thyroid.

MEN 1, 2A, 2B

What are chromaffin cells?

When the thyroid is operated on sometimes it results in hypoparathyroidism.