Growth Hormone (GH) Secretion in Patients with Childhood-Onset GH Deficiency: Retesting after One Year of Therapy and at Final Height | Zendy

Muriel Thomas | Zendy; G. Massa | Zendy; M. Maes | Zendy; Dominique Beckers | Zendy; Margarita Craen | Zendy; Inge François | Zendy; Claudine Heinrichs | Zendy; J P Bourguig | Zendy

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Growth Hormone (GH) Secretion in Patients with Childhood-Onset GH Deficiency: Retesting after One Year of Therapy and at Final Height

Author(s) -

Muriel Thomas,

G. Massa,

M. Maes,

Dominique Beckers,

Margarita Craen,

Inge François,

Claudine Heinrichs,

J P Bourguig

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

hormone research in paediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.816

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1663-2826

pISSN - 1663-2818

DOI - 10.1159/000067936

Subject(s) - medicine , growth hormone deficiency , endocrinology , retrospective cohort study , growth hormone , prospective cohort study , hormone , pediatrics

Recent studies have shown that many patients treated with growth hormone (GH) during childhood because of idiopathic GH deficiency (GHD) are no longer GH deficient when retested after cessation of GH therapy when final height is achieved. These patients are labelled as transient GHD. We hypothesized that normalization of GH secretion in transient GHD could occur earlier during the course of GH treatment, which could allow earlier cessation of GH treatment.

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