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Adult growth hormone deficiency
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2011 Adult growth hormone deficiency (AGHD) is being recognized increasingly and has been thought to be associated with premature mortality. Pituitary tumors are the commonest cause for AGHD.
Vishal Gupta
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Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
Endocrinology Research and PracticeGrowth 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 +2 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 [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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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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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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Idiopathic adult growth hormone deficiency. [PDF]
J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2013 GH secretion is controlled by hypothalamic as well as intrapituitary and peripheral signals, all of which converge upon the somatotroph, resulting in integrated GH synthesis and secretion. Enabling an accurate diagnosis of idiopathic adult GH deficiency (IAGHD) is challenged by the pulsatility of GH secretion, provocative test result variability, and ...
Melmed S.
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Endocrinology Research and Practice, 2022 Ideas about hormone replacement therapy in hypopituitarism have changed since the discovery of increased atheroscferotic process caused by growth hormone (GH) deficiency.The aim of this study is to see the effect of GH therapy on cardiac functions and ...
Füsun Hamulu +5 more
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Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist?
Italian Journal of Medicine, 2013 The Growth Hormone (GH) continues to act lifelong: it has been described, in fact, an Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency (AGHD) syndrome, involving several organs and functions, whose clinical aspects greatly improve with the administration of human ...
Giovanni Scanelli +3 more
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Growth Hormone Deficiency in the Transition Period
Endocrinology Research and Practice, 2019 The importance of continuing growth hormone therapy in the transition and adulthood periods must be studied in adolescents with growth hormone deficiency with childhood onset.
Doğuş VURALLI
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