Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of the growth hormone injection, called Humatrope, to add an extra 1.5 to 2.8 inches of height to short children. Short children are expected to be less than four feet and eleven inches as female adults and five feet and three inches as ...
Growth hormone for short children. By - Brian Stabler, LouisE. Underwooddoi:10.1016/0140-6736(91)92975-8BrianStablerandLouisE.UnderwoodSDOSLancetStabler B, Underwood LE. Growth hormone for short children. Lancet 1991;1:1298.Stabler B, Underwood LE. 1991 Growth hormone for short children [...
There is also the possibility of less increase or no increase at all in height after taking the hormone. It is not known what the long-term effects of Humatrope use in children are, although it has been around for more than 15 years and is generally considered safe and effective. The dr...
The effect of growth hormone (GH) treatment was studied in children born small for gestational age, who were not deficient in GH. A total of 131 patients was studied after 12, 18 and 24 months of therapy. Inclusion criteria for the study were: chronological age (CA) between 3 and 8 yea...
The objective of this paper was to determine systematically the impact of growth hormone (GH)therapy on adult height of children with (so-called) 'idiopathic short stature' (ISS) using the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, and the bibliographic references from retrieved articl...
H OnishiDepartment of Pediatrics, Funabashi Central Hospital, Chiba, JapanK SaitohDepartment of Pediatrics, Funabashi Central Hospital, Chiba, JapanH NakajimaDepartment of Pediatrics, Funabashi Central Hospital, Chiba, JapanJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Acta Paediatrica...
Growth hormone therapy for the short normal child: Who needs it and who wants it?: The case against growth hormone therapy::: LD Voss - 《Journal of Pediatrics》 被引量: 60发表: 2000年 Growth hormone therapy for the short normal child: Who needs it and who wants it?: The case ...
Growth hormone for small-for-gestational-age children: short and sweet? Some children born small for gestational age (SGA) show advanced bone age (BA) maturation during growth hormone (GH) treatment. ACAN gene mutations have be... Janet,H.,Silverstein,... - 《Journal of Pediatrics》 被引量...
Ten unselected, apparently healthy short children who were capable of normal growth hormone secretion were given human growth hormone (0.1 U/kg im thrice weekly) for 6 months to determine whether such treatment might lead to an increase in growth velocity. During treatment, all patients increased ...
Background: Growth hormone (GH) treatment in short children born small for gestational age (SGA) may result in metabolic changes with potential long-term effects. Methods: 149 short SGA children (mean birth weight 2.0 ± 0.6 kg, age 5.5 ± 1.5 years, height standard deviation...