sunset. To achieve good holistic management, harmony is needed between physicians and religious scholars ( 1 ). Fasting entails protracted periods of fasting, often exceeding 12-h per day. Prolonged abstinence, particularly in hot climates, subjects many
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Salem A Beshyah, Khawla F Ali, and Hussein F Saadi
Elena Valassi, Iacopo Chiodini, Richard A Feelders, Cornelie D Andela, Margueritta Abou-Hanna, Sarah Idres, and Antoine Tabarin
involved in the management of Cushing’s syndrome (%) ( n = 320) Endocrinologist 53.8 97.8 General practitioner/family doctor 18.1 56.3 Self-diagnosed 5.6 – Hospital/emergency doctor 3.8 – Internist 2
Xi Wang and Qi Yu
Objective
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of letrozole in girls with progressive precocious puberty (PP) associated with McCune–Albright syndrome (MAS).
Design
Monocentric retrospective cross-sectional and longitudinal study of consecutive patients.
Patients
Ten MAS patients treated at Peking Union Medical College Hospital between September 1999 and December 2017 were retrospectively reviewed; those with complications due to PP were followed.
Results
The mean age at letrozole initiation was 4.5 ± 2.6 years, while the mean duration of treatment was 3.3 ± 2.4 years. Letrozole was highly effective at decreasing the rate of skeletal maturation, with a significant decrease in the bone age-to-chronological age (BA/CA) ratio from 1.9 ± 1.1 pre-treatment to 1.5 ± 1.2 on letrozole treatment (P = 0.016). Moreover, growth velocity Z-scores declined from 0.41 ± 0.5 to −0.2 ± 0.31 with treatment (P < 0.001). Predicted adult height Z-scores increased significantly from −2.03 ± 2.33 at baseline to 1.13 ± 0.84 following treatment initiation (P = 0.029). Moreover, vaginal bleeding declined significantly on letrozole.
Conclusions
Our findings suggest that letrozole may be an effective therapy in some girls with MAS, as treatment results in improved BA/CA ratio, growth velocity and predicted adult height. Possible adverse effects include nettle rash.
Richard P Steeds, Vandana Sagar, Shishir Shetty, Tessa Oelofse, Harjot Singh, Raheel Ahmad, Elizabeth Bradley, Rachel Moore, Suzanne Vickrage, Stacey Smith, Ivan Yim, Yasir S Elhassan, Hema Venkataraman, John Ayuk, Stephen Rooney, and Tahir Shah
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drug treatment and management of pregnancy and breastfeeding. In recent years, two studies have conducted questionnaire surveys of clinicians’ management of prolactinomas reflecting self-reported clinical diagnoses and treatment ( 4 , 5 ). However, no
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Mônica R Gadelha, Feng Gu, Marcello D Bronstein, Thierry C Brue, Maria Fleseriu, Ilan Shimon, Aart J van der Lely, Shoba Ravichandran, Albert Kandra, Alberto M Pedroncelli, and Annamaria A L Colao
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