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197th Meeting of the Society for Endocrinology

Plenary Lecturers’ Biographical Notes

Society for Endocrinology European Medal Lecture

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Assessment of growth hormone levels: Tailor-made assays for specific clinical questions

Strasburger C

Since more than 40 years growth hormone (GH) measurement has been possible by immunoassay techniques. Although these methods have greatly augmented the diagnostic tools of endocrinologists following patients with GH-related disorders, their use has also brought about confusion and left uncertainties.Cut-off levels for dynamic GH tests in the diagnosis of both GH deficiency and acromegaly have to be considered arbitrary, since different commercial hGH ass...

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Society for Endocrinology European Medal Lecture

Costagliola S

C Strasburger, Charite Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany AbstractSince 2003 Christian J Strasburger has been Division Chief and Professor of Clinical Endocrinology at the Department of Medicine at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He graduated from the Medizinische Universität Lübeck, Germany and trained in internal medicine and endocrinology at the Universities of Lübeck and Munich. He ...