A Proposal for the Interpretation of Serum IGF-I Concentration as Part of Laboratory Screening in Children with Growth Failure

The serum insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) concentration is commonly used as a screening tool for growth hormone deficiency (GHD), but there is no consensus on the cut-off limit of IGF-I standard deviation score (SDS) to perform GH stimulation tests for confirmation or exclusion of GHD. We argue...

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Autores principales: Wit, Jan M., Bidlingmaier, Martin, de Bruin, Christiaan, Oostdijk, Wilma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2020
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7291410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31842524
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2019.2019.0176

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7291410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31842524
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2019.2019.0176

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