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Management of Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency
Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America, 2007The 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.
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Testing Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
2010Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in adults is a recognized syndrome which is defined biochemically within an appropriate clinical context. Clinically, patients investigated for GHD should include those with signs and symptoms of hypothalamic-pituitary disease, those who have received cranial irradiation or tumor treatment and those with traumatic brain ...
Gabellieri E +4 more
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Fuel metabolism in growth hormone-deficient adults
Metabolism, 1995Apart from being a stimulator of longitudinal growth, growth hormone (GH) regulates fuel metabolism in children and adults. A halfmark is mobilization of lipids, which involves an inhibition of lipoprotein lipase activity in adipose tissue and activation of the hormone sensitive lipase.
Jørgensen, J O +8 more
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Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults: A Review
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1996For more than 35 years, growth hormone (GH) has been used to promote linear growth in GH-deficient children. Previously, GH replacement in adults was limited to the supply of human pituitary-derived GH. In addition, until recently, GH replacement was not deemed clinically indicated.
T R, Meling, E S, Nylen
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Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
Acta Paediatrica, 1989ABSTRACTSalomon, F., Cuneo, R.C., Hesp, R. and Sönksen, P.H. (Department of Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital, London, UK and the Radioisotopes Division, MRC Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middlesex, UK). Growth hormone deficiency in adults. Acta Paediatr Scand [Suppl] 356: 69, 1989.There is a lack of information on the long‐term effects of growth ...
F. SALOMON +3 more
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Neuromuscular dysfunction in adult growth hormone deficiency
Clinical Endocrinology, 2003Summarybackground Adult growth hormone deficiency (AGHD) is associated with fatigue, tiredness and myalgias, which improve after initiating recombinant human GH (rhGH) therapy.aim To conduct an extensive neuromuscular investigation of patients with AGHD in an attempt to explain their neuromuscular symptoms.patients and methods Twenty adult patients (
Susan M, Webb +8 more
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Diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
Hormone Research, 1996The potential effects of growth hormone (GH) deficiency in adults and the importance of GH secretion in adult life have only been recognized and documented recently. It has been suggested that GH-deficient adults may have premature mortality, abnormalities in body composition and bone density with impaired physical performance and psychological well ...
M, Korbonits, M, Besser
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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 ...
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[Growth hormone deficiency in adults].
Przeglad lekarski, 2008Growth hormone (GH) deficiency in adults has only recently been recognised as a clinically important syndrome which is associated with increased morbidity and probably also with increased mortality. Its presence leads to many unfavourable changes in body composition (increased fat mass and decreased lean mass), lipid metabolism, bone mass and may ...
Robert, Krysiak, Bogusław, Okopień
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