Endocrine Abstracts

A 14 year old girl was referred with a diagnosis, made at birth, of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. She had undergone clitoral reduction and vulvovaginoplasty at age 2. Her height had been on 10th-25 th centile, and, at presentation to us, she was taking prednisolone (7.5milligrams in divided doses) and fludrocortisone 0.05 milligrams. At age 14 her height dropped to the 3 rd centile. She was hirsute, obese and had abdominal striae. A variety of steroid regimes only led to an ...