Rivista di formazione e aggiornamento professionale del pediatra e del medico di base, fondata nel 1982. In collaborazione con l'Associazione Culturale Pediatri.
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Growth hormone therapy

7 articoli — 1999-2025

RI Casi indimenticabili
Bassa statura: tutta colpa del papà

Tornese G.

2025/9 — pag. 598-600 — DOI

A child with slow growth and normal hormonal tests shows distinctive physical features. Clinical exome sequencing reveals a mutation in the IHH gene, inherited from the father, who had initially been overlooked. The child responds very well to growth...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Una mano da SHOX

Bossini B, Pellegrin MC

2021/8 — pag. 525-526 — DOI

A gene SHOX haploinsufficiency was diagnosed in a 13-year-old girl with short stature. Madelung deformity was absent but some dysmorphism of the fingers and toes were present....

RI Problemi speciali
Bassa statura da deficit di gene SHOX: vecchi e nuovi concetti

M.C. Pellegrin, S. Andrade, E. Faleschini, E. Barbi, C. Bizzarri, G. Tornese

2019/7 — pag. 438-444

At the moment alterations of SHOX gene, located in the pseudoautosomal region of sex chromosomes, are considered the most frequent genetic defects associated with short stature. Pathogenic mutations leading to SHOX deficiency involve not just exons...

RI Problemi speciali
Il deficit del gene SHOX come causa di bassa statura

L. Iughetti, S. Bernasconi, E. Caruso-Nicoletti, F. Chiarelli, A. Cicognani

2011/6 — pag. 367-373

SHOX gene (Short Stature Homeobox-containing gene) seems to play an important role in the growth process. Indeed, patients with mutations or deletions of this gene present with variable degrees of stature deficiency that in the most serious cases i...

RI Consensus
Gestione della sindrome di Turner in età pediatricae durante la vita adulta

R. Salomone, F. Chiarelli

2008/3 — pag. 157-165

This consensus statement arose from an interdisciplinary meeting of geneticists, paediatricians, cardiologists, internists, behavioural health specialists, and gynaecologists involved in the care of and clinical research on patients with Turner Syn...