BLA 044: Endocrine Society Guidelines- How to Diagnose Hypogonadism
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In this three part series I will be going through the Endocrine Society Guidelines for managing patients with testosterone for hypogonadism. This is a pretty dense document, so this paper will be broken up into three different podcasts covering various aspects of the paper.
Podcast 1: Basic physiology of testosterone and the types of hypogonadism
Podcast 2: How to diagnose hypogonadism
Podcast 3: Treatment and monitoring
In this episode (episode 2/3) we cover:
00:24 - How to diagnose hypogonadism
05:47 - How testosterone values can change day to day
09:13 - What is included in testosterone lab work
11:13 - When to check free testosterone
13:07 - What normal testosterone levels are
14:51 - When we screen for low testosterone
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