Human growth hormone (UK).

Human growth hormone (UK).

Human Growth Hormone

1. Children with proven growth hormone deficiency (GHD) 2. Children with height less than 3rd percentile for chronologic age with chronic renal insufficiency 3. Patients with AIDS wasting 4. Adults with proven GHD 5. Patients with Turner’s syndrome 6. Children with growth failure due to Prader-Willi syndrome 7. Patients with short stature due to Noonan syndrome 8. Promotion of wound healing in ...

CURRENT TOPIC Biosynthetic human growth hormone treatment in the UK : an audit of current practice

Biosynthetic human growth hormone was licensed for use in the UK in 1985, shortly after the withdrawal of human pituitary derived growth hormone because of the risk of Creutzfelt-Jakob disease.1 The primary indication remains the treatment of short stature due to growth hormone deficiency; the short stature of Turner's syndrome was a later approved indication. The release of biosynthetic growth...

Uk audit of childhood growth hormone prescription, 1998.

AIMS To identify all young people prescribed growth hormone in the UK as of 1 October 1998 and to determine their age, sex, and the indication for therapy. METHODS Cross sectional national postal audit through members of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED) and other paediatricians identified as potential prescribers of growth hormone. Main outcome measures we...

Studies with human growth hormone.

Let me tell you at the outset of my appreciation of the great honour you have done me in asking me to deliver the first Lawson Wilkins Memorial Lecture. I accepted this invitation with eagerness because I cherish any link that binds Lawson Wilkins' life and work to mine. I often turn to the page in the second edition of his great textbook in which he proudly listed the 31 Associates and Fellows...