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Italian cross-sectional growth charts for height, weight and BMI (2 to 20 yr)
The aim of this study is to extend to pre-school ages the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (SIEDP)-2002 growth charts for height, weight and body mass index (BMI), to obtain charts (SIE...
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Final height in a patient with Laron syndrome after long-term therapy with rhIGF-I and short-term therapy with LHRH-analogue and oxandrolone during puberty
Objective: To report our experience on long-term treatment with recombinant-human-IGF-I (rhIGF-I) of a female patient with Laron syndrome (mutation G223G in the GH receptor gene), who received short-term treat...
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Italian cross-sectional growth charts for height, weight and BMI (6–20 y)
Objective To trace growth charts for height, weight and body mass index (BMI) that apply to the whole Italian population. Different charts were drawn for central-north and south Italy since children in central-no...
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HYPODIPSIA-HYPERNATREMIA SYNDROME - A PEDIATRIC CASE REPORT
The cases of chronic hypodipsis and hypernatremia represent a rarity, especially for the pediatric age group, and are mostly reported as “neurogenic” or “essential” hypernatremia. This paper describes a 2 3/12...
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Long term growth hormone (GH)-releasing hormone and biosynthetic GH therapy in GH-deficient children: comparison of therapeutic effectiveness
Twenty-five GH-deficient children were treated with GHRH (1-44), once daily sc for 6–24 months. At the 6th month of therapy, 40% of our patients showed a catch-up growth (responded), while the remaining 60% di...
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116 GROWTH FACTORS IN HUMAN FOETAL PLASMA DURING THE SECOND TRIMESTER OF GESTATION: “IN UTERO” STUDY
The role of growth factors in fetal development is not clear. Fetal blood was obtained from 61 fetuses aged 19-25 weeks during the course of funicolocentesis performed for: suspected thalassaemia, fetal malfor...
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83 VARIABILITY OF ARGININL-DOPA AND SLEEP TEST PERFORMED TWICE IN THE SAME PATIENTS
We performed arginine and sleep tests (blood samples from latter collected every 30′ for 12 hours) twice within two weeks in 21 short patients with mean C.A. 11.15 years (range 7.5 - 15.91 years); 14 males, 7 ...
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69 HORMONAL, AUXOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOMETRIC ASPECTS IN YOUNG FOOTBALL PLAYERS
Hormonal parameters (SmC, GH, Testosterone (T) and DHAS), lenght and width measures, body composition and biological maturation (bone age, pubic hair, testicular volume) indicators were used to evaluate during...
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136 TREATMENT OF PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY BY INIRANASAL D-SER (TBU)6 LHRHI – 9EA10(BUSERELIN
GnRH analogues afford effective, selective, reversible inhibition of pituitary gonadotropin secretion. We administered Buserelin (300 ug × 6/die) to 18 girls affected by precocious puberty, for 6-24 months (on...
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150 GONADAL HITOLOGY IN TWENTY SUBJECTS WITH MAL PSEUDO – HERNAFRODITISM
Gonadal histology was investigated by means of conventional microscopy in 11 Complete Adrogen insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS), in 5 Incomplete Adrogen Insensitivity Syndrome (IAIS) and in 4 5αreductase deficienc...
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115 EFFECT OF GONADECTOMY ON GROWTH FACTORS IN TESTICULAR FENINIZED CHILDREN
Sm-C increase during puberty or sex hormones treatment. Whether this increase is mediated by GH is still unclear. Children with testicular feminization submitted to gonadectomy provide a good model to assess t...
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82 RESPONSIVENESS OF PITUTARY hGH TO CRF IN JUNVENILES WITH SIMPLE OBESITY
It has been found that in obesity the response of plasma hGH to the pharmacological stimuli is blunted and the episodic output of hGH during sleep is also subnormal. The response of plasma hGH to an iv bolus o...
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TREATMENT WITH CLONIDINE IN SUBJECTS WITH CONSTITUTIONAL GROWTH DELAY (CGO): A CONTROLLED DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY
In 1985, Pintor et al. reported that treatment with clonidine (CI), an α2-a-drenergic agonist, accelerates growth in children with growth disorders. In order to confirm or disprove this observation, we studied...
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WILMS' TUMOUR: AUXOLOGICAL AND ENDOCRINOLOGICAL STUDY
In Wilm's tumour, there is frequent spontaneous deletion of chromosome 11 and insulin and growth factor genes are located close to the deletion area. We studied growth and glycemia situation in 42 Wilms tumour...
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GROWTH AND PITUITARY FUNCTION IN CHILDREN TREATED FOR ACUTE LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA (ALL)
52 children in continuous complete remission from ALL and off all drugs for 2 years were studied. 39 had received cranial irradiation with 2400 cGy (group I) and 13 with 1800 cGy (group II). Height was measure...
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EFFECT OF ESTROGEN-PROGESTOGEN TREATMENT ON CARBOHYDRATE TOLERANCE IN TURNER'S SYNDROME
Glucose tolerance was evaluated by means of an OGTT in 16 girls with Turner's syndrome submitted to estrogen-progestogen treatment (10 subjects 45, X, 1 X-mosaic and 5 X structural abnormalities). OGTT was per...
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PELVIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN PREMATURE THELARCHE (PT), PREMATURE ADRENARCHE (PA), PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY (PP), EARLY PUBERTY (EP) AND OTHER ENDOCRINE ABNORMALITIES
Real-time ultrasonography of the pelvic organs was performed on 40 girls with PT, 31 with PA, 23 with PP, 39 with EP, 18 with isolated vaginal heeding (VB), 20 with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), 20 wit...
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DIFFERENCES IN GLUCOSE TOLERANCE IN TURNER'S SYNDROME DEPENDING ON AGE
Carbohydrate homeostasis was evaluated in 41 Turner-syndrome (mean age 11.5±2.7, range 5-16yrs) and in 25 short normal girls (mean age 10.8±2.7, range 6-16 yrs) by means of DGTT. Impaired glucose tolerance was...
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DISCORDANCES IN RELEASING TESTS IN DETECTING THE SITE OF THE DEFICIENCY IN PITUITARY PATIENTS
The GHRF test is thought to be able to differentiate pitutary from hypothalamic defects in GH-deficient patients. Our purpose was to verify if the information obtained via GHRF test was in agreement with that ...
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BREAST CONTACT THERMOGRAPHY IN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF PREMATURE THELARCHE AND PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY
In order to contribute to the differential diagnosis between idiopathic Premature Thelarche (PT)and true Precocious Puberty (PP) we performed Breast Contact Thermography (BCT, cholesteric liquid crystal plates...
