Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Growth response in GH deficient children during GH replacement therapy rarely fulfil our projections and patient’s expectations. We here report three cases with outstanding growth response.Case reports: First patient was diagnosed as gluten enteropathy in early childhood, but the diet didn’t improve his growth. At age of 7 years the diagnosis of isolated GH deficiency (GHD) was established and GH substitution therapy introduced. N...

Hyperprolactinaemia is the most common disturbance in the pituitary gland function. Different physiological and patological conditions could influnce prolactin (PRL) secretion. Prolactin secreting tumors (micro and macroprolactinomas) are rare in children and adolescents (estimated incidence is 1 per milion). Functional diversity of prolactin action is responsable for different initial clinical expression of hyperprolactinaemia.We investigated causes of ...