Predicting Response to Growth Hormone Treatment
โ Scribed by Leena Patel; Peter E. Clayton
- Book ID
- 107599219
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-5456
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The growth response to growth hormone (GH) therapy has been studied in 12 children who received irradiation to the cranium alone either for brain gliomas, distant from the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, or as prophylaxis against CNS leukaemia. Seven children have completed GH treatment (mean duration
Nineteen (12 male, 7 female) children, who have received craniospinal irradiation for the treatment of a brain tumour distant from the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, resulting in growth hormone (GH) deficiency (CS-PRGHD), have been treated with GH. Eight have completed growth. Comparison has been made