We are delighted to announce the upcoming Springer Healthcare IME Symposium, entitled Insights into MAnaging Growth for Endocrine Nurses (IMAGE). This meeting will take place on the 21–22 March 2024 at the Westminster Hotel and Spa, Nice, France.
The Guideline Development Group has created a set of UK guidelines to aid clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of children and young people with adamantinomatous craniopharyngiomas.
Research shows that growth hormone stimulation testing failure is more common in children with short stature or impaired linear growth who also have a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Measuring morning salivary cortisol can be used to assess hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis recovery in children who have completed a prolonged period of corticosteroid therapy, show study findings published in Hormone Research in Paediatrics.
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.
