Childhood-onset combined pituitary hormone deficiency occurs in around one in 16,000 children, but its diagnosis is often delayed due to nonspecific presenting symptoms, say researchers.
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.
Treatment with recombinant human growth hormone is not associated with cardiovascular adverse events in clinical practice, show data from two large, multicentre cohorts.
Young children with short stature due to aggrecan deficiency achieve a marked improvement in height velocity during their first year of treatment with recombinant human growth hormone, shows a cohort study.
The likelihood of finding an underlying genetic cause of short stature in children is markedly increased if they have additional factors such as dysmorphic facial features or skeletal dysplasia, say researchers.
Recombinant human growth hormone appears to have a positive effect on growth in children with Kabuki Syndrome, shows an open-label study.
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