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    No thyroid abnormalities in patients submitted to cardiac catheterization in the first eighteen months of life

    Background: No data are available about the risk of thyroid disturbance after exposure to low-dose radiation due to the use of cardiac catheterization in the first years of life. Aim: To determin...

    M. Cappa MD, P. Cambiaso, E. Genovese in Journal of Endocrinological Investigation (2013)

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    Responses to GHRH plus arginine test are more concordant with IGF-I circulating levels than responses to arginine and clonidine provocative tests

    Although pharmacological GH stimulation tests are still considered the gold standard for GH deficiency (GHD) diagnosis, they are burdened by poor specificity. The majority of children diagnosed as having GHD s...

    C. Giacomozzi, G.L. Spadoni, S. Pedicelli in Journal of Endocrinological Investigation (2012)

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    The effect of short-term growth hormone or low-dose oxandrolone treatment in boys with constitutional growth delay

    We evaluated the effect of six-month treatment with growth hormone (GH) or low-dose oxandrolone in a group of boys with constitutional growth delay (CGD). Sixteen boys were randomly assigned to two treatment g...

    Sandro Loche MD, C. Pintor, P. Cambiaso in Journal of Endocrinological Investigation (1991)