Endocrine Abstracts

When patient was an 14-year-old, he presented with a short stature and underdeveloped external genitalia. The patient had not undergone normal pubertal development. Hormonal studies and clinical examination revealed the findings of anterior and posterior pituitary hormone deficiency: ADH, LH (0.2 mIU/l), FSH (1.22 mIU/l). Since then patient took different therapy for diabetes insipidus. Secondary sexual characters developed during patient received gonadotropin for a very short...

A 21 years old man had growth failure since 11 y.o., micropenis, high-pitched voice, the absence of secondary sex characteristics and male sexual behavior, constant fatigue and weakness. The boy was born in time after 1st normal pregnancy, birth weight 3000 g, length 57 cm, had unilateral cryptorchidism (surgical treatment in 2002). At the age of 21 the height of the patient was 144 cm (SDS - 4.62), BMI 15 kg/m2 (BMI SDS −3.89), Tanner G1P1, bone age 13 y.o. I...