[Growth hormone treatment update]

Arch Argent Pediatr. 2014 Feb;112(1):89-95. doi: 10.5546/aap.2014.89.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Short stature in children is a common cause for referral to pediatric endocrinologists, corresponding most times to normal variants of growth. Initially growth hormone therapy was circumscribed to children presenting growth hormone deficiency. Since the production of recombinant human hormone its use had spread to other pathologies.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Growth Disorders / drug therapy*
  • Growth Disorders / etiology
  • Human Growth Hormone / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Hypopituitarism / complications
  • Hypopituitarism / drug therapy
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Turner Syndrome / complications
  • Turner Syndrome / drug therapy

Substances

  • Human Growth Hormone