NCLEX: ENDOCRINE: PITUITARY GLAND fully solved

NCLEX: ENDOCRINE: PITUITARY GLAND THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF HYPERPITUITARISM IS A ? - correct answer BENIGN ADENOMA WHAT ARE TWO CONDITIONS THAT OCCUR IN THE ANTERIOR PITUITARY GLAND? - correct answer GIGANTISM AND ACROMEGALY GIGANTISM OCCURS WHEN WHAT? - correct answer GH HYPERSECRETION BEGINS BEFORE PUBERTY AND THE CLOSURE OF THE EPIPHYSEAL PLATES. ACROMEGALY MEANS? - correct answer ENLARGED EXTREMITIES ACROMEGALY IS TREATED BY SURGICAL REMOVAL OR IRRADIATION OF? - correct answer THE PITUITARY TUMOR. WHAT PROCEDURE IS MOST COMMONLY USED? - correct answer A TRANSSPHENIODAL OR TRANSFRONTAL SURGICAL PROCEDURE. WHAT IS AN ANTERIOR PITUITARY DRUG? - correct answer OCTREOTIDE (SANDOSTATIN) WHAT IS THIS DRUG USED FOR? - correct answer INHIBITS GROWTH HORMONE, PROMOTES FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE REABSORPTION, INDICATED FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACROMEGALY, SEVERE DIARRHEA AND FLUSHING EPISODES ASSOCIATED WITH METASTATIC TUMORS WHAT ARE THE COMMON ADVERSE EFFECTS OF OCTREOTIDE (SANDOSTATIN)? - correct answer DYSRHYTHMIAS, HEART FAILURE, HA, HYPER AND HYPOGLYCEMIA, GI COMPLAINTS, FATIQUE AND DIZZINESS, CHOLELITHIASIS