Same Phenotype in Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency and Resistance

• Hauptverfasser: Irene Ioimo (Verfasst von), Carmen Guarracino (Verfasst von), Cristina Meazza (Verfasst von), Horacio M. Domené (Verfasst von), Mauro Bozzola (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Hindawi Limited, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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By definition, about 2.5% of children show a short stature due to several causes. Two clinical conditions are characterized by serum IGF-I low levels, idiopathic GH deficiency (IGHD), and GH insensitivity (GHI), and the phenotypic appearance of these patients may be very similar. We studied two chil...