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Chronic kidney diseases affect sex hormones, and thus it is now hypothesized abnormal puberty phenomenon in adolescents suffering renal failure. The primary study endpoint was to assess the frequency of disorders related to the clinical incidence of ...
Davood Amirkashani +2 more
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An Approach to the Patient with Delayed Puberty.
Pediatric endocrinologists often evaluate and treat youth with delayed puberty. Stereotypically, these patients are 14-year-old young men who present due to lack of pubertal development.
J. Harrington, M. Palmert
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Puberty is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood characterized by the attainment of adult height and body composition, accrual of bone strength and the acquisition of secondary sexual characteristics, psychosocial maturation and ...
Satu Seppä +3 more
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BACKGROUND Clinicians have long been struggling to find an effective tool to predict onset of puberty. OBJECTIVE To explore stimulability of inhibin B after exogenous FSH and it's potential role for prediction of onset of puberty.
S. Chaudhary +6 more
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Frasier syndrome (FS) is a rare inherited disorder characterized by gonadal dysgenesis and progressive nephropathy, resulting from mutations in the intron 9 splice donor site of the Wilms tumor 1 (WT1) gene. It is associated with male gonadal dysgenesis (
Qing Shao +5 more
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Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism: from clinical characteristics to genetic aspects [PDF]
Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) is a rare disorder caused by a deficiency in gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). CHH is characterized by delayed puberty and/or infertility; this is because GnRH is the main component of the hypothalamic ...
Ahreum Kwon, Ho-Seong Kim
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BackgroundDelayed puberty in males is almost invariably associated with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) or congenital hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism (CHH).
Ali Abbara +30 more
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Developmental abnormalities of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neuronal network result in a range of conditions from idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism to self-limited delayed puberty.
Tansit Saengkaew +9 more
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IntroductionDelayed puberty (DP) is a frequent concern for adolescents. The most common underlying aetiology is self-limited DP (SLDP). However, this can be difficult to differentiate from the more severe condition congenital hypogonadotrophic ...
Yuri Aung +24 more
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Background: Animal studies suggest that insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1 ) may influence the function of the hypothalamus–pituitary–testicular axis, especially in childhood, but the evidence in humans is scanty.
Rossella Cannarella +4 more
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