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Growth hormone deficiency in children
Pituitary, 2008The foundation for the diagnosis of growth hormone (GH) deficiency in childhood must be auxology, that is, the comparison of the child's growth pattern to that of established norms for gender and ethnicity. It is only in those growing considerably more slowly than average that testing for GHD makes sense. Assessment of laboratory tests, whether static,
Alan D. Rogol +3 more
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Isolated growth hormone deficiency
Pituitary, 2007Isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) represents conditions of GH deficiency that are not necessarily associated with other pituitary hormone deficiencies or with an organic lesion. Three sub-categories of IGHD have been clinically identified (IGHD types 1-3), and IGHD type 1 has been further separated into IGHD types 1a and b.
Libia M. Hernández +4 more
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Diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency
2010The diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency (GHD) was essentially a clinical one prior to the advent of radioimmunoassay in the mid-1960s. From this point on both clinical and biochemical serum GH responses to a variety of provocation tests were used to define the condition. The definition of an adequate GH response to stimulation has changed over time,
E.A. Webb, Mehul T. Dattani
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Growth hormone therapy for adult growth hormone deficiency
Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1996GH deficiency in adult life is associated with a number of adverse biological changes including osteopenia, reduced exercise capacity, altered body composition, deleterious alterations in the lipid profile and insulin status, and reduced quality of life. Potentially, most of these changes can be reversed by GH replacement therapy.
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Genetics of Growth Hormone Deficiency
Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America, 2007When a child is not following the normal, predicted growth curve, an evaluation for underlying illness and central nervous system abnormalities is required and appropriate consideration should be given to genetic defects causing growth hormone (GH) deficiency.
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Diagnosis of growth-hormone deficiency in adults
The Lancet, 1994There is no consensus as to the most appropriate method of diagnosing growth-hormone (GH) deficiency in adults. We have evaluated the relative diagnostic merits of measuring peak GH response to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia (insulin tolerance test), mean 24 h GH concentration derived from 20 min sampling, serum insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I ...
Anthony J O'Sullivan +7 more
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Growth hormone replacement for adult growth hormone deficiency
Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2003Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in childhood causes growth retardation, short stature and significant impairment of adult height. Growth hormone (GH) has been given successfully to these children for > 40 years but only since the introduction of recombinant DNA technology, has enough GH been available for paediatric needs and also for other indications.
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Detection of Growth-Hormone Deficiency
New England Journal of Medicine, 1970Abstract After injection of glucagon, growth hormone increased to 8.0 ng per milliliter or more in 33 of 34 subjects without apparent pituitary disease. In 21 of 23 patients with pituitary disease the maximum value did not exceed 4.8 ng per milliliter. The glucagon stimulation test is a safe, convenient and reasonably reliable way of testing for growth-
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Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency
2002Adult-onset growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a rare disease with an exact incidence that is not currently known, but indirect estimates based on the incidence of pituitary tumors suggest an incidence of 10 people per million annually (1). Over the last decade the adverse metabolic and psychological sequelae of adult GHD have been increasingly ...
James W. Edmondson, Zehra Haider
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