Endocrine disease
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Endocrine diseases are disorders of the endocrine system. The branch of medicine associated with endocrine disorders is known as endocrinology.
Types of disease
Broadly speaking, endocrine disorders may be subdivided into three groups:[1]
- Endocrine gland hypofunction/hyposecretion (leading to hormone deficiency)
- Endocrine gland hyperfunction/hypersecretion (leading to hormone excess)
- Tumours (benign or malignant) of endocrine glands
Endocrine disorders are often quite complex, involving a mixed picture of hyposecretion and hypersecretion because of the feedback mechanisms involved in the endocrine system. For example, most forms of
thyroid stimulating hormone.[2]
List of diseases
Glucose homeostasis disorders
Thyroid disorders
- Goitre
- Hyperthyroidism
- Graves-Basedow disease
- Toxic multinodular goitre
- Thyrotoxic myopathy
- Hypothyroidism
- Hypothyroid myopathies[5]
- Thyroiditis
- Thyroid cancer
- Thyroid hormone resistance
Calcium homeostasis disorders and Metabolic bone disease
- Parathyroid gland disorders
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- Secondary hyperparathyroidism
- Tertiary hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperparathyroid myopathy[6]
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Pseudohypoparathyroidism
- Hypoparathyroid myopathy[6]
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Osteoporosis
- Osteitis deformans(Paget's disease of bone)
- Rickets
- Osteomalacia
Pituitary gland disorders
Posterior pituitary
- Diabetes insipidus
- Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH)
Anterior pituitary
- Hypopituitarism (or Panhypopituitarism)
- Pituitary tumors
- Pituitary adenomas
- Hyperprolactinemia)
- Acromegaly, gigantism, dwarfism
- Cushing's disease
Adrenal gland disorders
- Addison's disease
- Adrenal crisis
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Adrenal tumour
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- Hypercortisolism(Cushing's disease)
- Hypoaldosteronism
- Hyperaldosteronism
Sex hormone disorders
- Disorders of sex development or intersex disorders
- Hermaphroditism
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Androgen insensitivity syndromes
- Gonadotropin deficiency)
- Inherited (genetic and chromosomal) disorders
- Acquired disorders
- Ovarian failure (also known as Premature Menopause)
- Testicular failure
- Disorders of Puberty
- Menstrual function or fertility disorders
Tumours of the endocrine glands not mentioned elsewhere
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia
- MEN type 1
- MEN type 2a
- MEN type 2b
- Carcinoid syndrome
See also separate organs
- Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes
- Incidentaloma- an unexpected finding on diagnostic imaging, often of endocrine glands
Endocrine emergencies
In endocrinology, medical emergencies include
myxoedema coma and pituitary apoplexy.[7]
Emergencies arising from decompensated
parathyroid adenomas are sometimes referred for emergency resection when aggressive medical therapies fail to control the patient's state, however the surgical risks are significant, especially blood pressure lability and the possibility of cardiovascular collapse after resection (due to a brutal drop in respectively catecholamines and calcium, which must be compensated with gradual normalization).[8][9] It remains debated when emergency surgery is appropriate as opposed to urgent or elective surgery after continued attempts to stabilize the patient, notably in view of newer and more efficient medications and protocols.[10][11][12]
See also
- List of MeSH codes (C19)
- List of ICD-9 codes 240-279: Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders
References
External links
- Endocrine+system+diseases at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- MedlinePlus Overview endocrinediseases