ESPE2019 Poster Category 1 Pituitary, Neuroendocrinology and Puberty (24 abstracts)
Role of Priming in Peri-Pubertal Growth Delays: Preliminary Results of A Large Multicenter Study
Elena Galazzi 1,2 , Nicola Improda 3 , Manuela Cerbone 4,5 , Davide Soranna 6 , Mirella Moro 2 , Letizia Maria Fatti 2 , Antonella Zambon 7 , Mariacarolina Salerno 3 , Mehul Dattani 4,5 & Luca Persani 1,8
1Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. 2Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Milan, Italy. 3Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy. 4London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and University College London Hospitals, London, UK, London, United Kingdom. 5Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme, University College London Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health, London, UK, London, United Kingdom. 6Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Milan, Italy, Milan, Italy. 7Division of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Dept of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, Milan, Italy. 8Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Federico II University of Naples, Milan, Italy
Introduction: Peripubertal children with delayed puberty frequently display a poor growth rate prompting endocrine work-up. Whether priming with sex steroids should routinely be performed in these patients to improve specificity of growth hormone stimulation tests (GHST) is unclear. Treatment with sex steroids in constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) is also debated.
Patients and Methods: This multicenter retrospective study included 151 normal weight children (54 females) presenting with pubertal delay and short stature/poor growth rate (aged 12.55±1.82 years). Patients were diagnosed as CDGP if GH peak after a GHST was ≥ 8 µg/L or isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) if < 8 µg/L. CDGP patients received low-dose sex steroids (LDSS) for 3-51 months, or no treatment. All IGHD patients received rhGH (25-35 µg/kg/day). Within the IGHD cohort, 77/85 were retested at final height (FH). Patients were divided into 6 groups: untreated CDGP diagnosed with or without priming (1A n = 31; 2A = 21), CDGP receiving LDSS diagnosed with or without priming (1B = 12; 2B = 2), IGHD diagnosed with or without priming (1C = 42; 2C = 43). Standard deviation score (SDS) FH, Δ SDS FH- SDS target height (TH) and degree of success (defined as - 1 ≤Δ SDS FH- SDS TH ≤ 1) were outcomes of interest.
Results: SDS FH was higher in group 1C than 1A (-0.86 vs -1.43, P= 0.014) and similar trend was found for ΔSDS FH-TH (1C -0.07 vs 1A -0.74; P = 0.005). SDS FH and ΔSDS FH-TH were comparable between groups 2C and 2A (-0.93 vs -0.99, P= 0.85; -0.31 vs -0.46, P=0.508).
IGHD patients showed the highest degree of success [group C (1C + 2C) 89% vs group B (1B + 2 B) 86% vs group A (1A+2A) 63% P= 0.0009], and above all group 1C (1C 93%, 2C 86%, 1B 83%, 1A 68%, 2A 57%, P= 0.005).
At retesting, a higher proportion of permanent IGHD was documented in group 1C (1C 27% vs 2C 17.5%; N.S.), not reaching statistical significance possibly due to low sample size.
Conclusion: Our data suggest that priming with sex steroids in peripubertal short subjects improves the ability to select those patients who would more likely benefit from rhGH therapy. Indeed, rhGH treatment in IGHD seems to give advantages in terms of final height compared to untreated CDGP especially in those patients diagnosed upon a primed GHST.
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