Longitudinal Health Care for Girls and Women With Turner Syndrome

Care of girls and women with Turner syndrome: a guideline of the Turner Syndrome Study Group.

OBJECTIVES The objective of this work is to provide updated guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of girls and women with Turner syndrome (TS). PARTICIPANTS The Turner Syndrome Consensus Study Group is a multidisciplinary panel of experts with relevant clinical and research experience with TS that met in Bethesda, Maryland, April 2006. The meeting was supported by the National Institute...

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Care of Girls and Women With Turner Syndrome.

CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE Care of Girls and Women with Turner Syndrome: A Guideline of the Turner Syndrome Study Group

Consensus: The study group met for 3 d to discuss key issues. Breakout groups focused on genetic, cardiological, auxological, psychological, gynecological, and general medical concerns and drafted recommendations for presentation to the whole group. Draft reports were available for additional comment on the meeting web site. Synthesis of the section reports and final revisions were reviewed by ...

Care of girls and women with Turner syndrome: beyond growth and hormones

Turner syndrome (TS), although considered a rare disease, is the most common sex chromosome abnormality in women, with an incident of 1 in 2500 female births. TS is characterized by distinctive physical features such as short stature, ovarian dysgenesis, an increased risk for heart and renal defects as well as a specific cognitive and psychosocial phenotype. Given the complexity of the conditio...

Growth Curves for Girls with Turner Syndrome

A growth chart for girls with Turner syndrome has been prepared using data from four published series of European patients, and evaluated using retrospective data on the heights of girls with Turner syndrome seen at this hospital. The results indicate that calculation of height standard deviation score from this chart allows a reasonable prediction of adult stature in any patient with Turner sy...