Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Deficiency of growth hormone (GH) in children is manifested by pronounced stunting (below −2 sigmal abnormalities (SD)), different changes in body composition. Frequency of occurrence varies from 1:4000 to 1:10000 newborns.Objective: To assess the effectiveness of treatment by comparing the dynamics of growth of those with isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) and of those with panhypopituitarism (PHP).Mater...

Medical History of thirty five patients aged from one to sixteen years diagnosed with CAH have been analyzed in the Republican Center for Pediatric Endocrinology. Among the thirty five patients participating in the study (boys–fifty seven percent, girls –forty-three) seventy-one percent is with salt wasting form (SWF), twenty-two percent with virilising form (VF), three percent with non-classical form (NF). The mean weight SDS at birth is minus eight hund...