hrp0089p3-p192 | GH & IGFs P3 | ESPE2018

Good Growth Response to Growth Hormone Therapy in Short Children with Normal Growth Hormone Secretion

Awwa AhmedEl , Soliman Ashraf

The availability of biosynthetic growth hormone (GH) ensures that children who are deficient can have replacement therapy, but it also has created the opportunity to treat children who are short but do not have a deficiency. Non-GH deficient short stature, without treatment, the height outcomes in most studies have failed to reach mid-parental target height. GH therapy resulted in mixed height outcomes; some reached genetic target height whereas others failed. The aim of this ...