Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, UK
Department of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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Department of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, UK
Department of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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Department of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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Introduction Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a clinical condition that can present in childhood or adult life. Adult-onset GHD is usually caused by a pituitary tumour and/or its treatments (surgery, radiotherapy) ( 1 ). Although the true
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, testosterone enanthate (Savient Pharmaceuticals, East Brunswick, NJ, USA) was administered intramuscularly at 0.4 mg/kg/week. GH (recombinant human growth hormone bulk solution, LG Life Sciences, Korea) treatments were administered subcutaneously on alternate
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Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
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Elias and coworkers ( 37 ). Still, application of models in the field of GH treatment response prediction requires some caution due to usage of various methods of hormonal assessment and differences in growth between populations. Certainly, any model
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stenosis (PVS; prevalence 50–60%), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM; 20%) and atrial septal defects (6–10%) ( 1 ). Growth hormone (GH) treatment in patients with NS improves height velocity, height standard deviation score (SDS) and adult height, with a
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hormone, with a sequence identical to that of human growth hormone, marketed under any brand name; (4) intervention and comparison, rhGH alone vs placebo/no treatment, rhGH plus oxandrolone combination therapy vs rhGH alone therapy. We excluded
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GH. The objective was to provide more convenient drug administration to ease the lives of patients with GHD, thereby potentially improving compliance and treatment outcomes. The Growth Hormone Research Society recently identified a number of
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Introduction Endocrine disorders affect up to 60% of childhood cancer survivors (CCS) ( 1 ). Cancer, brain tumors and their treatments have been associated with a higher risk of deficiencies in growth hormone (GH), thyroid hormone and sex