These questions are designed to be a brief active review of the previous article. If for some reason something doesn’t make sense or you want to go back and review click here for that article.
1. Which thyroiditis is due to a bacterial infection?
- Suppurative thyroiditis
- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- Subacute thyroiditis
- Reidel thyroiditis
2. What % of patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis will have sjogrens symptoms as well?
- 10%
- 25%
- 33%
- 50%
3. The new mother presents to your office with depression, brittle hair and edema. Being a clinical fox you don’t just blow these off to being a new mother and you do a thyroid panel. It comes back with an elevated TSH. The most appropriate treatment at this point would be…
- propranolol
- levothyroxine
- watchful waiting
- propylthiouracil
4. Which condition is a severe hypothyroid state?
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Myxedema
- Levothyroxine
5. You believe a patient presenting to you has relatively severe hypothyroidism. You send off a thyroid panel as well as a CBC and a BMP. Since you are an excellent physician assistant, what abnormality do you expect to find on the BMP?
- elevated sodium
- decreased sodium
- elevated potassium
- decreased postassium
