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1.What is Endocrinology? |
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Endocrinology is a sub specialties internal medicine. It deals with
all diseases related to hormonal disturbances. |
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2. What are the common Endocrine diseases? |
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Thyroid disorders, obesity, short stature,
polycystic ovary disease, Livsulium or
abnormal hair growth ladies, disorder
of pubertal maturation either early or delayed,
disorders of sexual differentiation
i.e. failure of a baby to develop as unambiguous male or female are
some of the common problems encountered in endocrine practice. |
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3. How to deal with these problems? |
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Proper diagnosis and treatment can successfully manage most of the
endocrine diseases. In most of the cases the results are very good.
However, these disease although sometimes apparently benign can
cause significant morbidity and
mortality. |
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4. What is thyroid? |
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Thyroid is an
endocrine gland located
in front of the neck. It secretes mainly two hormones
T3 and
T4
which are essential for proper functionality of almost all systems
of the body. |
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5. Which are the problems we can have from thyroid disorders?
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Thyroid diseases may be either due to
functional disturbances or structure abnormality. Functionally, the
disease can be either hypo or under secretion of thyroid hormone and
hyper or over secretion of thyroid hormones. Structurally, the
thyroid gland may be enlarged which can be either cancerous or
benign. |
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6. How do I know I have thyroid problem? |
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Get your thyroid function checked if you have: |
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7. Can thyroid problem be treated? |
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Both hypo and hyper Thyroidism can be successfully treated with good
results. |
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