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MON-246 Long-Term Impact of Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone Treatment in Five Infants with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism

Background Severe congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) in boys can be diagnosed during the minipuberty of infancy. Combined gonadotrophin treatment at that age is suggested to improve testicular function, yet long-term evidence is lacking. We describe the first long-term follow-up data on...

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Autores principales: Kohva, Ella, Miettinen, Paivi, Hero, Matti, Huopio, Hanna, Raivio, Taneli
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Publicado: Endocrine Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550613/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/js.2019-MON-246
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author Kohva, Ella
Miettinen, Paivi
Hero, Matti
Huopio, Hanna
Raivio, Taneli
author_facet Kohva, Ella
Miettinen, Paivi
Hero, Matti
Huopio, Hanna
Raivio, Taneli
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description Background Severe congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) in boys can be diagnosed during the minipuberty of infancy. Combined gonadotrophin treatment at that age is suggested to improve testicular function, yet long-term evidence is lacking. We describe the first long-term follow-up data on CHH boys treated with recombinant human follicle stimulating hormone [r-hFSH] as infants. Patients and Methods This is a retrospective patient chart review of five boys from two pediatric tertiary centers in Finland (2004-2016). Four patients had panhypopituitarism of yet unknown etiology, one had CHARGE syndrome due to a CHD7 mutation. The patients were treated at the age of 0.7 to 4.2 months with r-hFSH (from 16.6 IU to 33.4 IU s.c. per week for 3 to 4.3 months) combined with testosterone [T] (25 mg i.m. monthly for three months). Inhibin B levels and testicular development were followed for 1.9 to 12.2 years after the treatment. Results During the r-hFSH + T treatment, inhibin B increased from 76 ± 18 ng/L to 176 ± 80 ng/L (p = 0.04) and penile length increased by 81 ± 50% (p = 0.04). All boys underwent orchidopexy at 2.0 ± 0.7 years of age; one boy had testicular regression. Unexpectedly, two boys with robust inhibin B responses in infancy demonstrated low inhibin B values in peripuberty: from 290 ng/L (4 months) to 16 ng/L (12.4 years), and from 207 ng/L (6 months) to 21 ng/L (12.8 years). Conclusions This is the first report of the long-term effects of r-hFSH-treatment given during minipuberty. The data suggest that Sertoli-cell response to r-hFSH is transient and that testosterone, given concomitantly with r-hFSH at infancy, does not inhibit Sertoli cell activity. Our observations require confirmation from larger longitudinal patient series.
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spelling pubmed-65506132019-06-13 MON-246 Long-Term Impact of Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone Treatment in Five Infants with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism Kohva, Ella Miettinen, Paivi Hero, Matti Huopio, Hanna Raivio, Taneli J Endocr Soc Pediatric Endocrinology Background Severe congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) in boys can be diagnosed during the minipuberty of infancy. Combined gonadotrophin treatment at that age is suggested to improve testicular function, yet long-term evidence is lacking. We describe the first long-term follow-up data on CHH boys treated with recombinant human follicle stimulating hormone [r-hFSH] as infants. Patients and Methods This is a retrospective patient chart review of five boys from two pediatric tertiary centers in Finland (2004-2016). Four patients had panhypopituitarism of yet unknown etiology, one had CHARGE syndrome due to a CHD7 mutation. The patients were treated at the age of 0.7 to 4.2 months with r-hFSH (from 16.6 IU to 33.4 IU s.c. per week for 3 to 4.3 months) combined with testosterone [T] (25 mg i.m. monthly for three months). Inhibin B levels and testicular development were followed for 1.9 to 12.2 years after the treatment. Results During the r-hFSH + T treatment, inhibin B increased from 76 ± 18 ng/L to 176 ± 80 ng/L (p = 0.04) and penile length increased by 81 ± 50% (p = 0.04). All boys underwent orchidopexy at 2.0 ± 0.7 years of age; one boy had testicular regression. Unexpectedly, two boys with robust inhibin B responses in infancy demonstrated low inhibin B values in peripuberty: from 290 ng/L (4 months) to 16 ng/L (12.4 years), and from 207 ng/L (6 months) to 21 ng/L (12.8 years). Conclusions This is the first report of the long-term effects of r-hFSH-treatment given during minipuberty. The data suggest that Sertoli-cell response to r-hFSH is transient and that testosterone, given concomitantly with r-hFSH at infancy, does not inhibit Sertoli cell activity. Our observations require confirmation from larger longitudinal patient series. Endocrine Society 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6550613/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/js.2019-MON-246 Text en Copyright © 2019 Endocrine Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, No-Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Kohva, Ella
Miettinen, Paivi
Hero, Matti
Huopio, Hanna
Raivio, Taneli
MON-246 Long-Term Impact of Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone Treatment in Five Infants with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
title MON-246 Long-Term Impact of Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone Treatment in Five Infants with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
title_full MON-246 Long-Term Impact of Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone Treatment in Five Infants with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
title_fullStr MON-246 Long-Term Impact of Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone Treatment in Five Infants with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
title_full_unstemmed MON-246 Long-Term Impact of Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone Treatment in Five Infants with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
title_short MON-246 Long-Term Impact of Recombinant Follicle Stimulating Hormone Treatment in Five Infants with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
title_sort mon-246 long-term impact of recombinant follicle stimulating hormone treatment in five infants with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
topic Pediatric Endocrinology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550613/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/js.2019-MON-246
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