Recombinant human growth hormone treatment in short children with renal disease: Our first experience
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Treatment of short stature in renal disease with recombinant human growth hormone.
Six prepubertal children with chronic renal failure (group 1), six prepubertal children with renal transplants (group 2), and six pubertal children with renal transplants (group 3) who were short (mean height SD score, -3.2, range -4.5 to -1.6) and growing poorly (mean (range) growth velocity (cm/year) over the year before treatment: group 1, 4.8 (3.5-5.8), group 2, 2.3 (0.9-4.7), and group 3, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0370-8179,2406-0895
DOI: 10.2298/sarh1004197s