ESPE Abstracts

Background: Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a disorder affecting children's linear growth and leading to short stature without initiation of treatment with growth hormone (GH). Administration of GH has been shown to be safe and effective to increase children's final height in GHD. It is important to start the treatment as early as the GHD is diagnosed. The objective of the current study is to evaluate the growth velocity and height standard deviat...

Background: Hypopituitarism is a rare condition characterized by the insufficiency of 2 and more hormones produced by anterior pituitary gland. The major causes of hypopituitarism are brain tumors located near or in the pituitary gland and/or hypothalamus, cranial radiation, chemo- or surgical therapy, cranial traumas, neuroinfections, autoimmune hypophysitis (immune-mediated inflammation of pituitary gland) etc. Brain tumors are the second most frequent type ...