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    Isolated childhood growth hormone deficiency: a 30-year experience on final height and a new prediction model

    We aimed to evaluate the near-final height (nFHt) in a large cohort of pediatricpatients with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) and to elaborate a new predictive method of nFHt.

    Antonella Lonero, Massimo Giotta in Journal of Endocrinological Investigation (2022)

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    Multiple cerebral sinus thromboses complicating meningococcal meningitis: a pediatric case report

    Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVT) is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition in the pediatric population. The clinical presentation is frequently nonspecific; thus diagnosis is often delayed or ...

    Elena Bozzola, Mauro Bozzola, Giovanna Stefania Colafati in BMC Pediatrics (2014)

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    Efficacy of long-term growth hormone therapy in short children with reduced growth hormone biological activity

    Aim: The optimal GH regimen, in terms of cost-effectiveness, in children with normal GH immunoreactivity but reduced bioactivity is still debated. Methods: In 12 GH-deficient (GHD) and 12 bioinac...

    S. Pagani, C. Meazza, K. Laarej, F. Cantoni in Journal of Endocrinological Investigation (2011)

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    Immunization with Haemophilus influenzae Type b Conjugate Vaccine in Children Given Bone Marrow Transplantation: Comparison with Healthy Age-Matched Controls

    Forty-seven patients (age range, 7 months–18 years)with malignant (38 cases) and nonmalignant (9 cases)disorders given an allogeneic or an autologous bone marrowtransplantation (BMT) were immunized with Haemophil...

    Maria Antonietta Avanzini, Anna Maria Carrà in Journal of Clinical Immunology (1998)