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PREVALENCE OF COELIAC DISEASE IN TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS: A STUDY PERFORMED VIA TESTS FOR ANTIGLIADIN ANTIBODIES
The association between diabetes mellitus and coeliac disease has been described a number of times. By using tests for antireticulin antibodies, Maki et al. found a greater prevalence of the disease in diabeti...
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EXAMINATION OF THE AUXOLOGICAL AND HORMONAL PARAMETERS IN 100 “SHORT NORMAL” RE: DIAGNOSIS OF “SUSPECTED GH DEFICIENCY”
100 subjects, 3rd percentile for height, were submitted to three tests; sleep (8 pm-7.30 am), arginine and L-dopa. Patients: 75 males (a. 5.7/16.2), 25 females (a. 4.8/14.1). All subjects had a normal peak >8n...
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44 GH, HPRL, ACTH, TSH AND SmC RESPONSE TO GH-RF IN CHILDREN WITH PITUITARY DWARFISM
20 prepubertal GH-deficient children (C.A. 4.88-17.75yrs) were studied; 15 patients had isolated GH-deficiency, 5 had multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies, such as GH-ACTH-TSH (1 case), GH-TSH (2 cases), GH...
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43 SHORT STATURE AND CELIAC DISEASE: CAN THE SIMPLE DETECTION OF THE ANTIBODIES TO GLIADIN RESOLVE THIS RELATIONSHIP?
107 nonselected children (77 n. and 30 f.) with short stature and absence of gastrointestinal tract symptoms were examined. In addition to the normal tests for the pathogenetic definition of short stature, in ...
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45 SmC RESPONSE TO hGH AND GH-RF IN GH-RF-DEFICIENT CHILDREN
4 GH-RF deficient children (1 with isolated GH-deficiency, 2 with GH-TSH deficiencies, 1 with GH-TSH-ACTH-deficiencies) were administered s.c. hGH (after the previous hGH treatment had been discontinued 1 week...
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Somatomedin-C in fullterm, preterm and small for date infants
Capillary blood samples on filter paper were assayed by means of a RIA method (kit Nichols Institute USA) from 1096 newborns divided into fullterm,preterm and small for date infants.Somatomedin-C (SmC) mean va...
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Haemorheologic and lipidemic parameters in obesity and diabetes
Haemorheologic and lipidemic tests were performed in 3 groups of children: 20 with obesity (14m,6f., age 11.4±2.6y) defined as a weight excess of at least 20% (OC) ; 16 with type 1 diabetes in compensated phas...
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Some psychological aspects of young type-I-diabetics and of their parents
30 type-I-diabetic outpatients (15 m. and 15 f., mean age 11.5, range 7-17 yrs) and 47 healthy age-,sex-, and socioeconosically matched schoolchildren were submitted to the Louis Corman's family test. The diab...
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Plasma Somatoiedin-C in children and adolescents with IDDM
Previous studies in diabetic patients have reported elevated normal and reduced somatomedin levels.We used RIA method to determine Somatomedin C (SMC) in 57 diabetic children and adolescents(29 f. and 28 m.;ag...
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Neonatal screening for 21-hydroxylase deficiency: a microfilter paper method for 17-α-hydroxyprogesterone assay
A micromethod for measuring 17a-hydroxyprogesterone in blo’od collected on filter paper has been developed. Our method is rapid, easy and has the specificity, accuracy and precisoin of the radioimmunoassay in ...
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Neonatal screening for congenital-adrenal hyperplasia using a microfilter paper method for 17-α-hydroxyprogesterone radioimmunoassay. Experience gained from 22.233 cases
We examined 22.233 infants born in Emilia-Romagna (Italy). Capillary blood samples for 17-OH-progesterone assay were collected on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th day of life on filter paper of the same type used...
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Prolactin, TSH, T3, T4, fT3, fT4, TBG and reverse T3 in Turner's Syndrome
In 18 girls with Turner's S. basal plasma values of T3, T4, fT3, fT4, TBG and reverse T3 were assessed and a TRH-test carried out to assay prolactin and TSH. The results were studied bearing in mind the cariot...
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Gonadal and adrenal secretion of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate in prepubertal and pubertal subjects
The Authors have evaluated the relationship between the secretion of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHA-S) by the adrenal glands and by the gonads in a group of prepubertal and pubertal subjects (“short norma...
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Treatment of cryptorchidism by intrarasal syrthetic LH-RH analogue
The effect of ar aralogue of LH-RH (Ho 766,Hoechst) given by nasal spray to 20 cryptorchids was evaluated. 10 boys were treated with 100 μg (group A) and 10 boys with 25 μg (group B) of the analogue giver ever...
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Prolactin secretion disorder in the obese prepubertal and pubertal boy
A disorder in the prolactin secretion has been demonstrated in the obese adult. No data of this kind exist concerning children.
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Sensitivity to exogenous insulin and endogenous insulin release in hypopituitary non-hypoglycemic children treated with HGH
35 hypopituitary patients treated with HGH, 5 hypopituitary subjects before the start of HGH treatment and 15 short-normal children were studied. Informed consent of the parents was obtained. In all the subjec...
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Effect of long term GH administration on the pituitary-thyroidal function in idiopathic hypopituitarism
24 euthyroidal children suffering from idiopathic pituitary dwarfism were studied. The thyroidal situation was evaluated through the assay of T3,T4 and the use of the TRH test.All of the children were treated ...
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Hypophyso-gonadal function in the diabetic child
Fourteen diabetic boys (five with family history of diabetes and nine without) and twenty-nine “short normal” boys were studied. A gonadal function test (2,000 IU of hCG im for three days and plasma testostero...
