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| Male Hypogonadism: Kallmann's syndrome |
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| Hypogonadism caused by a deficiency of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, created by hypothalamus. |
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| secondary hypogonadism reflecting that the primary cause of defect in sex hormone production lies within the pituitary and hypothalamus rather than a physical defect of the teses or ovaries themselves. hypogonadism, congenital, ansomia, or hyposmia. |
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| Hypophyseal portal system, triggers production and release of LH and FSH from gonadotropes. When low, pituitary does not create normal amount of gonadotropins. normally increase production of gonadal steroids. will be low |
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| GnRH neurons do not migrate properly from olfactory placode to hypothalamus during development. Olfactory bulbs fail to form or have hypoplasia, leading to anosmia or hyposmia. |
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| Symptoms and Signs of Kallmann's syndrome(puberty) |
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| Decresed development of muscle mass, lack of deepening of voice, impaired body hair, impaired growth of penis and testicles, excessive grotwh of the arms and legs in relation to the trunk of body, gynecomastia. |
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| Signs and Symptoms of Kallmann's Syndrome (adulthood) |
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| Hypgonadism in adult males may alter certain muscles impairing normal reproductive function. Erectile dysfunction, Infertility, Decrease beard and body hair, increase body fat, decrease size or firmness of testicles, decrease in muscle mass, development of breast tissue, loss of bone mass. |
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| What is the main health risk for untreated Kallmann syndrome? |
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| What is the treatment for Kallmann's syndrome? |
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| Hormone Replacement Therapy. Males receive hCG or testosterone. Females with estrogen and progestins. |
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| Male Pseudohermaphroditism |
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| form in which affected individual is genetic and gonadal male with incomplete masculinization. 45 XY. gonads testeds, but genital ducts are external genitalia are female. secondary sex characteristic s may never appear while some may have fully feminized physique |
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| measures amount of semen and quality of sperm. determines infertility. Volume measure how much semen. Liquefaction time-thick gel becomes liquid whitin 20 minutes. Sperm count. Sperm morphology. Sperm motility. pH. white blood cell. Fructos level |
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| Helps determine cause of male infertility. abnormal count or hormone results withing normal range it is done. not used to detect testicular cancer. |
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| Early development of sexual characteristics. Most children grow fast at first, but finish early. most don't grow above 5'2" |
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| Cause of precocious puberty |
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| Tumors or growths of ovaries, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, or brain. May include CNS abnormalities, family history, genetic syndromes. |
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| GnRH dependant precocious puberty |
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| Central precocious puberty. most common, premature secretion of FSH and LH |
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| Gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty |
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| not triggered by early release of FSH,LH. Group of disorders sex steroid-producing tumors. Androgens from testis or adrenal are increased but gonadotropins low. |
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| Diagnositic Testss for Precocious Puberty |
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| X-ray, Measurement of Gonadotropins, Ultrasound, Gonadotropin-stimulating hormone test, Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
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| paired male gonad located outside the body cavity in the scrotum. egg-shaped? |
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| Serous sac that is invested with the testis |
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| Smooth white capsule from which septa extend into the organ to divide it into approximately 250 pyramidal lobules. Each lobule containiing 3 tightly packed and highly convuluted seminiferous tubules. |
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| What is the tubulus rectus? |
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| short straight tube formed from each lobule. |
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| What are the rete testis? |
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| network of interconnnecting tubes which empty into the efferent ducutles |
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| What empties into the efferent ductules? |
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| Postero-lateral aspect of testis which is a tightly coiled tube from posterior aspect of testis. |
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| Where do the efferent dutules drain? |
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| Into the duct of the epididymis head or caput. |
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| Where does the epididymis become the ductus or vas deferens? |
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| At the inferior pole of the testis. |
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| What structure does the vas deferens become as it ascends behind the testis? |
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| Spermatic cord, whic also contains the artery, vein and lymphatics. |
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| surrounded by a well-defined basement membrane. epithelium composed of two cells: sustenacular called sertoli cells, and spermatogenic or germ cells. |
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| non-proliferating elongated cells whose cytoplasm extends from the basement membrane to the lumen of the tubule. |
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| Actively replicating cells at various stages of a complex differentiating process called spermatogenesis. |
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| What is the relative quantity of spermatogonia before the onset of puberty? |
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