Lack of Catch-Up Growth with Growth Hormone Treatment in a Child Born Small for Gestational Age Leading to a Diagnosis of Noonan Syndrome with a Pathogenic PTPN11 Variant

BACKGROUND: Growth hormone (GH) treatment increases the adult height of short children born small for gestational age (SGA). Catch-up growth is associated with a younger age, shorter height, and prepubertal status at the onset of GH treatment. We report a 12 11/12-year-old girl born SGA who received...

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Autores principales: Olivieri, Daniel J., Massingham, Lauren J., Schwab, Jennifer L., Quintos, Jose Bernardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8203378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5571524

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