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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Human Growth Hormone

35 articoli — 1997-2025

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...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Sfide endocrinologiche neonatali: un caso di ipopituitarismo congenito

Carabelli G, Sala Veni C, Cardani R, Salvatore S, Agosti M

2025/7 — pag. 194-195 — DOI

A full-term newborn delivered by urgent caesarean section developed persistent hypoglycemia within the first hours of life, along with hypotonia, poor feeding and prolonged jaundice. Endocrine evaluation revealed congenital hypopituitarism, confirmed...

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Sembra un deficit di GH, e invece non lo è!

Casini F, Magenes VC, Guida G, Lonoce L, Pozzi E, Cocuccio C, Arrigoni S, Zuccotti G

2024/7 — pag. 142-143 — DOI

A 2.5-year-old girl was evaluated for poor growth. Despite low IGF-1 levels, GH deficiency was excluded. Further investigation revealed celiac disease, diagnosed via EGDS. After starting a gluten-free diet, catch-up growth was observed. The patient r...

RI Farmacoriflessioni
I LAGH (ormoni della crescita long-acting): cosa sono e a chi proporli?

Rodaro C, Tornese G.

2024/6 — pag. 371-375 — DOI

Children with growth hormone deficiency are currently treated with daily injections of recombinant growth hormone. The burden of 365 injections per year and cold chain storage causes a poor medication adherence. Long-acting growth hormones were devel...

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Un caso di ipopituitarismo in età infantile

Guida M, Malizia G, Ferrara D

2023/8 — pag. 146-150 — DOI

Hypopituitarism is often an evolutionary condition, which if not present at birth with the classic signs of severe hypoglycaemia, prolonged jaundice, bilateral cryptorchidism and / or micropenis and alterations of neurological development, causes a d...

RI Aggiornamento
Decifrare la bassa statura nei bambini

Chiarelli F, Castorani V, Polidori N

2021/3 — pag. 159-166 — DOI

Short stature is the most common cause of referral to paediatricians. Only a minority of children with short stature have an underlying pathology. Although well-established diagnostic and management paradigms do exist, recent advances in molecular te...

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 Aggiornamento
Corto come il papà

G. Tornese

2019/7 — pag. 431-437

Familial short stature is the second cause of short stature immediately after constitutional delay of growth and puberty. So far, in case of familiarity for short stature, regular growth velocity, bone age compatible with chronological age, the ind...

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Accesso libero
Una bambina piccola con le dita coniche

V. Carrato, A.G. Grasso

2019/7 — pag. 154-154

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Ma che fine fanno gli SGA?

G. Tornese

2019/6 — pag. 355-364

Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) is an approved and effective treatment for short children born small for gestational age (SGA). Prevalence of children eligible for treatment as SGA is reported to be 1:1,800. The latest data from the Italian...

RI Casi indimenticabili
Una cefalea importante

G. Acucella, E. Eljerbi, G. Grugni, A. Guala

2018/3 — pag. 192-193

EL I Poster degli specializzandi
Accesso libero
Un caso particolare di pubertà precoce

P. Scalini, M. Giacalone, S. Ricci

2015/6

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
Linee guida sulla diagnosi e il trattamento del bambino con bassa statura idiopatica

F. Chiarelli, R. Salomone

2008/10 — pag. 626-633

ISS is defined auxologically by a height below -2 SDS without findings of disease after a complete evaluation by a pediatric endocrinologist (including bone age X-ray, thyroid function, karyotype for girls, and measurements of IGF-I and stimulated gr...

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Ipertensione endocranica idiopatica (pseudotumor cerebri) in una bambina in terapia con ormone della crescita

G. Tornese, F. Patarino, S. Pensiero, F. Parentin, E. Faleschini, G. Tonini, F. Marchetti

2007/7 — pag. 459-461

We report a case of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) (pseudotumor cerebri) following treatment with recombinant growth hormone (rhGH). A 9-year-old girl, treated for GH deficiency, developed bitemporal worsening headache, diplopia, intermit...

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Accesso libero
Ipertensione endocranica idiopatica (pseudotumor cerebri) in una bambina in terapia con ormone della crescita

G. Tornese, F. Patarino, S. Pensiero, F. Parentin, E. Faleschini, G. Tonini, F. Marchetti

2007/7

RI Consensus
Il bambino nato piccolo per l’età gestazionale

R. Salomone, F. Chiarelli

2007/6 — pag. 363-369

Being small for gestational (SGA) leads to consequences not only in the neonatal period but also in adulthood. During the last 15 years, a number of long term risks of being SGA have been clearly identified, including hypertension, ischaemic heart ...

EL Contributi Originali - Ricerca
Accesso libero
La prescrizione di farmaci soggetti a nota nella popolazione pediatrica italiana.

S. Maschi, A. Clavenna, E. Rossi, A. Berti, M. De Rosa, M. Bonati

2005/7

RI Pagine elettroniche
La prescrizione di farmaci soggetti a Nota nella popolazione pediatrica italiana

S. Maschi, A. Clavenna, E. Rossi, et al.

2005/7 — pag. 475-477

The objectives of the study are to evaluate the pattern of drug prescriptions reimbursed with limitations (AIFA notes) by the National Health System in the Italian paediatric population. Prescriptions involving 982,035 children ...

EL Caso Clinico Interattivo
Accesso libero
La storia di Tina

M. Lazzerini

2003/7

RI Pagina verde
Accesso libero
Eritromelalgia, vasculite, vitiligo, ipertensione, difetto di gh

R. Cimaz, A. Langer

2000/6 — pag. 391-393

Description of a case of idiopathic erythromelalgia, started at about 5 years, which dramatically developed over many years, with painful crises to the feet (and then also to the hands) mitigated in cold conditions only, with trophic alterations t...

RI Linee guida
Accesso libero
Indicazioni all’uso dell’ormone della crescita

M. Pocecco

1998/8 — pag. 541

RI Novità
Accesso libero
Novità in Pediatria pratica 1996-1997

F. Panizon

1997/10 — pag. 649-674