This text presents the proceedings of the Serono Symposia Workshop on Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology. Papers discuss various related issues including intrauterine growth restrictions, the genetics of Silver-Russell syndrome, human growth hormone therapy and high-dose hormone therapy.
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978-3-8055-6700-8 (9783805567008)
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Intrauterine growth restriction - definition and aetiology; children born small for gestational age - postnatal growth and hormonal status; diagnosis and management of intrauterine growth retardation; multiple hormone resistance in short children born with intrauterine growth retardation?; long-term consequences of intrauterine growth retardation; genetics of Silver-Russell syndrome; growth hormone treatment of Russell-Silver syndrome; the growth hormone cascade - progress and long-term results of growth hormone treatment in growth hormone defficiency; management of recombinant human growth hormone therapy at puberty; growth hormone therapy in patients with Turner syndrome; high-dose growth hormone therapy in idiopathic short stature; the effect of different growth hormone administration frequencies on growth in growth hormone-deficient patients; safety of high doses of recombinant human growth hormone.
