75 TRANSIENT GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY DURING BROMOCRYPTINE TREATMENT FOR HYPERPROLCATINEMIA

Treatment of growth hormone deficiency in adults.

BACKGROUND The Growth Hormone Research Society held a Consensus Workshop in Sydney, Australia, in March 2007 to review advances in the management of growth hormone (GH) deficiency in adults and to update consensus recommendations. OBJECTIVE This short review summarizes key background information presented at the workshop and the consensus recommendations that followed. CONCLUSIONS The benef...

Understanding Treatment Burden for Children Treated for Growth Hormone Deficiency

OBJECTIVE Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) treatment for children requires growth hormone injections, typically administered daily until the child reaches adult height. Child GHD treatment burden is not well understood and no disease-specific measures exist to assess this burden. The purpose of the study was to explore GHD treatment burden for children and their parents by conducting concept eli...

Successful Combined Treatment for Atrophic Thyroiditis With Growth Hormone Deficiency

The rationale and design of TransCon Growth Hormone for the treatment of growth hormone deficiency

The fundamental challenge of developing a long-acting growth hormone (LAGH) is to create a more convenient growth hormone (GH) dosing profile while retaining the excellent safety, efficacy and tolerability of daily GH. With GH receptors on virtually all cells, replacement therapy should achieve the same tissue distribution and effects of daily (and endogenous) GH while maintaining levels of GH ...

Treatment with Growth Hormone for Adults with Growth Hormone Deficiency Syndrome: Benefits and Risks

Pharmacological treatment of growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in adults began in clinical practice more than 20 years ago. Since then, a great volume of experience has been accumulated on its effects on the symptoms and biochemical alterations that characterize this hormonal deficiency. The effects on body composition, muscle mass and strength, exercise capacity, glucose and lipid profile, bone ...