Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Currently we investigate children with possible GH deficiency, but who are healthy, with a normal short stature screen, and without suspicion of other pituitary dysfunction (‘simple short stature’), with full dynamic anterior pituitary function tests (APFT). An abnormal GH peak leads to a second GH stimulation test. We studied the cost implications of only performing a GH stimulation test initially, followed by full APFT if the initial GH peak was low, to...