Endocrine Abstracts

Individuals with Turner syndrome (TS) have an increased risk for congenital and acquired cardiovascular disease (23–50%). This results in increased morbidity and mortality throughout the TS lifespan. There is an increased prevalence of bicuspid aortic valve malformation, coarctatio of the aorta, elongation of the transverse aortic arch, and partial anomalous venous return. In addition, TS females may develop aortopathy that may result in clinically significant aortic dila...

Efficacy of rhGH for treatment of pediatric GH deficiency (PGHD) may depend on several variables at treatment initiation (age, body weight, height velocity (HV), IGF-I SDS, skeletal maturation, GHmax), but may be compromised by poor adherence to required daily injections. Somavaratan is a novel, long-acting rhGH fusion protein that demonstrated clinically meaningful improvements in HV and IGF-I concentration in PGHD patients. Over 200 pre-pubertal GHD subjects have enrolled in...