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      Non-Conventional Use of Growth Hormone: European Experience

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          Abstract

          Results from several centres in Europe using biosynthetic human growth hormone (hGH) for the promotion of growth in a variety of conditions other than classical hGH deficiency were evaluated. Significant increments in growth rates were achieved by daily administration of hGH in doses appropriate for body size without disproportionate skeletal advances in short normals, Turner syndrome, low birth weight, skeletal dysplasia, central precocious puberty (reared with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogue) and renal failure.

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          Journal
          HRE
          Horm Res Paediatr
          10.1159/issn.1663-2818
          Hormone Research in Paediatrics
          S. Karger AG
          978-3-8055-5289-9
          978-3-318-01976-6
          1663-2818
          1663-2826
          1990
          1990
          02 December 2008
          : 33
          : 2-4
          : 128-136
          Affiliations
          Endocrine Unit, The Middlesex Hospital, London, UK
          Article
          181496 Horm Res 1990;33:128–136
          10.1159/000181496
          2210617
          0884e5fb-47b3-4a73-a909-b88a9b5b7713
          © 1990 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          Pages: 9
          Categories
          IV. Update on Growth Hormone Therapy

          Endocrinology & Diabetes,Neurology,Nutrition & Dietetics,Sexual medicine,Internal medicine,Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical medicine
          Growth hormone,Non-conventional use,Short stature,European experience,Growth hormone treatment

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