Using both height and deviation from height target during growth monitoring could improve detection of pathological growth disorders in children and avoid unnecessary clinic referrals, suggest UK researchers who found the current criteria to have low sensitivity.
A systematic review and meta-analysis confirms a high rate of reversal of idiopathic growth hormone deficiency, albeit strongly dependent on the peak GH cutoff used.
Weekly injections of somatrogon result in similar height gains to daily somatropin treatment in children with growth hormone deficiency, show results of a 12-month phase 3 trial.
An oral growth hormone secretagogue receptor agonist produces larger GH responses than standard stimulation tests in children with growth hormone deficiency, study findings suggest.
A study of Brazilian children with isolated SHOX haploinsufficency who were followed up until adult height has demonstrated a long-term benefit of recombinant human growth hormone therapy with or without puberty modulator treatment.
A 2-year-old boy is brought to the Paediatric Endocrine clinic with parental concerns of short stature.
Children with growth hormone deficiency maintain their growth trajectories if they switch from a daily recombinant human growth hormone to weekly lonapegsomatropin, and the vast majority prefer the less frequent injections, show the results of the fliGHt trial.
Treatment with recombinant human growth hormone results in an increased final adult height in children with molecularly confirmed Silver–Russell syndrome, as well as an improved BMI that persists after treatment cessation, say researchers.
The benefit of initiating recombinant human growth hormone before puberty in patients with Noonan syndrome occurs regardless of whether the children carry a PTPN11 mutation, suggests research published in Endocrine Connections.
Blood-cell markers of inflammation are elevated in children with Cushing’s syndrome and may offer useful diagnostic information, say researchers.
