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Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Idiopathic Short Stature by Michael B. Ranke is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Idiopathic Short Stature about?
Idiopathic short stature (ISS) is defined as shortness in childhood without a specific cause. ISS may be familial or nonfamilial and may be associated with or without delay of pubertal development. Treatment can be considered in an attempt to reduce the psychological burden caused by short stature in childhood and adult life. If counselling alone is not sufficient, medical modifications of the growth process can be attempted. In cases with pubertal delay, sex steroids, such as testosterone and oxandrolone, can favourably influence height velocity and growth tempo, although adult height is not affected. Medications that prolong the process of growth--for example, gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists or aromatase inhibitors--might increase adult height, but findings to date are still experimental. Growth hormone therapy is approved for the treatment of very short children with reduced adult height expectation, as evidence has accumulated that this therapy can increase height in childhood and in adult life. Sensitivity to growth hormone is impaired in patients with ISS; therefore, doses higher than a replacement dose have to be applied. This treatment still needs to be optimized in
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- Author
- Michael B. Ranke
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)