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What will be the adult height of coeliac patients?
We studied three groups of patient with coeliac disease: group 1=95 adult patients with gastro-intestinal symptoms diagnosed after reaching adult height, 41 of whom had had symptoms during childhood; group 2=2...
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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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Differences in carbohydrate tolerance in Turner syndrome depending on age and karyotype
Carbohydrate homeostasis was evaluated in 47 girls with Turner syndrome and in 25 “short normal” girls by means of an oral glucose tolerance test. Of the Turner patients 34% showed an impaired glucose toleranc...
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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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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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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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Longitudinal anthropometric measurements in patients with growth hormone deficiency. Effect of human growth hormone treatment
The effect of human growth hormone (6IU/m2 twice weekly i.m.) on standing, sitting, and subischial leg height, on arm length, head circumference, fronto-occipital and biparietal head diameter, bi-iliac (pelvis) a...
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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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Anthropometric measurements in patients with growth hormone deficiency before treatment with human growth hormone
In 74 children (52 ♂, 22 ♀) with growth hormone (GH) deficiency (30 cases with isolated GH-deficiency, two of them familial; 4 familial and one isolated case with tendency for formation of antibodies against h...
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Modified response to single-dose metyrapone(M) in delayed adolescence(DA)
23 males with DA (mean chronologic 15.7 ± 2.0, bone age 12.4 ± 2.1 yrs, SD) and excluded growth hormone (GH), gonadotropin (Gn) deficiency or hypothyroidism were studied. Cortisol response to insulin was norma...
