Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Diagnosing GDH in children remains matter of debate due to variability in results obtained with pharmacological tests, one child may fail one test, but pass another. Spontaneous GH secretion assessment is costly, time consuming, and results may show poor correlations with those obtained with provocative tests. To add to diagnosic power of provocative tests, testing IGF-I and IGF-PB3 have been suggested. In recent years, however, the contribution of IGF-PB3 assay to...