Same Phenotype in Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency and Resistance

Authors :: Irene Ioimo
Cristina Meazza
Horacio M. Domené
Mauro Bozzola
Carmen Guarracino
Source :: Case Reports in Pediatrics, Vol 2018 (2018), Case Reports in Pediatrics, CONICET Digital (CONICET), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, instacron:CONICET
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2018.
Abstract: By definition, about 2.5% of children show a short stature due to several causes. Two clinical conditions are characterized by serum IGF-I low levels, idiopathic GH deficiency (IGHD), and GH insensitivity (GHI), and the phenotypic appearance of these patients may be very similar. We studied two children with short stature and similar phenotypes. *e first case showed frontal bossing, dollface, acromicria, and truncal obesity, with a GH peak

Language :: English
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Case Reports in Pediatrics, Vol 2018 (2018), Case Reports in Pediatrics, CONICET Digital (CONICET), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, instacron:CONICET
Accession number :: edsair.doi.dedup.....af42021db66e0e05304fe967218e9337

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