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Endocrines, 2022 Short stature is a common reason for a child to visit the endocrinologist, and can be a variant of normal or secondary to an underlying pathologic cause. Pathologic causes include growth hormone deficiency (GHD), which can be congenital or acquired later.
Colleen O'Neill +2 more
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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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Effect of growth hormone therapy on Taiwanese children with growth hormone deficiency [PDF]
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2012 Human growth hormone (GH) has been successfully used in children with GH deficiency (GHD). However, there are few published data on the effect of GH in Taiwanese children with GHD.
Ying-Hua Huang +3 more
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Prevalence of growth hormone deficiency in brain tumor survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Endocrine OncologyObjective: To evaluate the prevalence of growth hormone deficiency in patients who underwent cranial irradiation for brain tumors. Methods: Ovid Medline and Embase databases were used for review.
Tatiana Tselovalnikova +5 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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Response to growth hormone according to provocation test results in idiopathic short stature and idiopathic growth hormone deficiency [PDF]
Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2022 Purpose To investigate growth response in children with either idiopathic short stature (ISS) or growth hormone (GH) deficiency (GHD). Methods The data of prepubertal GHD or ISS children treated using recombinant human GH were obtained from the LG Growth
Ju Young Yoon +9 more
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Growth hormone in growth hormone deficiency [PDF]
BMJ, 2002 Papers p 70 With the advent of an unlimited supply of recombinant DNA growth hormonesome 15 years ago endocrinologists and paediatricians hoped that the majorgoal in treating children with growth hormone deficiency—that is, a near normal adult height—would finally be achievable.
Jean-Claude Carel +2 more
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Growth Hormone Deficiency [PDF]
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 1987 Growth hormone deficiency is relative, not absolute. Conventional stimulation tests of hGH release do not recognise some children who will benefit from hGH treatment and it is probably justified, at this point, undertaking a six month trial of hGH in all short children who are growing slowly (less than 4 cm/yr).
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Prolyl Endopeptidase-like Deficiency Associated with Growth Hormone Deficiency
JCRPE, 2023 Prolyl endopeptidase-like (PREPL) deficiency (MIM#616224) is a rare congenital disorder characterised by neonatal hypotonia and feeding difficulties, growth hormone (GH) deficiency and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism.
Laura Sayol-Torres +5 more
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Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2022 SUMMARY We present the unique case of an adult Brazilian woman with severe short stature due to growth hormone deficiency with a heterozygous G to T substitution in the donor splice site of intron 3 of the growth hormone 1 (GH1) gene (c.291+1G>T).
Julia Haddad Labello +8 more
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