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Management of growth hormone deficiency in adults

Growth Hormone & IGF Research, 2007
Growth hormone (GH) deficiency in adults is a recognised clinical entity. There is still, however, an ongoing debate of the clinical need and the importance of replacing GH in adults with severe GH deficiency. This review will focus on the overall management of adults with GH deficiency and highlight published data on dose management and treatment ...
Anna G, Nilsson, Johan, Svensson, Gudmundur, Johannsson   +2 more
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Treatment of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults

Hormone Research in Paediatrics, 2009
<i>Background:</i> The Growth Hormone Research Society held a Consensus Workshop in Sydney, Australia, in March 2007 to review advances in the management of growth hormone (GH) deficiency in adults and to update consensus recommendations. <i>Objective:</i> This short review summarizes key background information presented at the ...
Johannsson, Gudmundur,
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Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults

Endocrinology Research and Practice
Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is the most frequently occurring pituitary hormone deficiency. Lesions in the hypothalamo-pituitary region and their treatment, pituitary apoplexy, empty sella, Sheehan’s syndrome, traumatic brain injury, infective ...
Emre Urhan, Kursad Unluhizarci, Fahrettin Kelestimur   +2 more
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A phase 2 trial of long-acting TransCon growth hormone in adult GH deficiency

Endocrine Connections, 2017
TransCon growth hormone is a sustained-release human growth hormone prodrug under development in which unmodified growth hormone is transiently linked to a carrier molecule.
Charlotte Höybye, Andreas F H Pfeiffer, Diego Ferone, Jens Sandahl Christiansen, David Gilfoyle, Eva Dam Christoffersen, Eva Mortensen, Jonathan A Leff, Michael Beckert   +8 more
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Management of Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America, 2007
The management of adults who have severe growth hormone deficiency (GHD) includes its recognition in susceptible patients, including all subjects who have any form of hypothalamic pituitary disorder. This article also focuses on the overall management of adults who have hypopituitarism and severe GHD.
Johannsson, Gudmundur,
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Developments in the Management of Growth Hormone Deficiency: Clinical Utility of Somapacitan

Drug Design, Development and Therapy
Bradley S Miller,1 Jo Blair,2 Reiko Horikawa,3 Agnès Linglart,4– 7 Kevin CJ Yuen8 1Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, University of Minnesota Medical School, MHealth Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 2Department of Paediatric ...
Miller BS, Blair J, Horikawa R, Linglart A, Yuen KC   +4 more
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Diagnosing Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults [PDF]

International Journal of Endocrinology, 2012
Adult growth hormone (GH) deficiency is a recognised syndrome associated with adverse phenotypic, metabolic, and quality-of-life features which improve in many patients when GH is substituted.
Nigel Glynn, Amar Agha
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Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency

Apollo Medicine, 2009
Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) can persist from childhood or be newly acquired. Confirmation through stimulation testing is usually required unless there is a proven genetic/structural lesion persistent from childhood. Growth harmone (GH) therapy offers benefits in body composition, exercise capacity, skeletal integrity, and quality of life measures ...
Mukul Gupta, Niti Agrawal, S K Wangnoo
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Adult growth hormone deficiency [PDF]

Clinical Medicine, 2003
Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in adults arises as a consequence of decreased secretion of somatotropin (GH) from the anterior pituitary. The diagnosis of GHD is dependent on the demonstration of a subnormal rise in serum GH in response to one or more dynamic stimulation tests in the presence of co-existing pituitary disease or other pituitary hormone
A M, Brooke, J P, Monson
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Growth hormone treatment for growth hormone deficient adults [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 1996
Growth hormone (GH) deficiency in adults is now recognized as a clinical syndrome with characteristic signs and symptoms. Numerous trials with daily subcutaneous biosynthetic human growth hormone (hGH) have been conducted in this patient group. Generally, improvements in insulin-like growth factor levels, decreases in total fat mass and increases in ...
W, Clark, M J, Kendall
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