d. Addison's disease

Tests

1) What laboratory tests are the most informative in diagnostics of Cushing syndrome?

a. Cortisol level in plasma or serum of blood

b. 17-HCS level in daily urine

c. 11- CS level in daily urine

d. ACTH level in plasma or serum

e. 17-HCS level in the morning urine

2) What diagnostic tests are not used in diagnostics of Cushing syndrome?

a. Stimulation tests with synthetic ACTH analogue –synachtene

b. Suppressive tests with dexamethasone

c. Big Liddle's test

d. Small Liddle's's test

e. Fasting glycemia level and 2hrs postprandial glycenia level

3) What diseases are characterized by significant increase of ACTH ?

a. Cushing disease

b. Cushing syndrome

c. Hyperplasia of adrenal glands in patients with bronchogenic cancer of lung

d. Addison's disease

4) What symptoms are not characteristic for Cushing syndrome

a. Dysplastic central obesity

b. Purplish and reddish striae on a skin of abdomen

c. Hypoglycemia

d. Hyperglycemia

e. Hyperpigmentation

5) All following symptoms are characteristic for Addison's disease except:

a. Abdominal obesity

b. Hyperpigmentation

c. Arterial hypertension

d. Hyperkaliemia

e. Hypoglycemia

6) What laboratory tests are used in diagnostics of chronic primary adrenal insufficiency?

a. Cortisol level in plasma or serum of blood

b. 11- CS level in daily urine

c. Catecholamine concentration in daily urine

d. ACTH level in plasma or serum of blood

e) Iron level in serum of blood

7) What laboratotry criterae are the most significant in differential diagnosis between primary and secondary hypocorticism?

a. Creatinine and urea level

b. Catecholamine concentration in daily urine

c. 11- CS level in daily urine

d. ACTH and Cortisol level in plasma or serum