hrp0098p2-194 | Growth and Syndromes | ESPE2024

Effectiveness of therapy with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) in patients with HLHS and short stature

Wędrychowicz Andrzej , Furtak Aleksandra , Ossowska Magdalena , Komorkiewicz Karolina , Roztoczynska Dorota , B. Starzyk Jerzy

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is one of the most severe congenital heart defects. Despite medical progress, HLHS patients remain at risk of many complications of this cardiac defect and cardiac surgery, including growth failure. Some of them can be treated with recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) fulfilling criteria of GH–deficiency (GHD) or having a history of intrauterine growth restriction or small for gestational age (SGA). We assessed the effectiveness ...