Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist?
The Growth Hormone (GH) continues to act lifelong: it has been described, in fact, an Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency (AGHD) syndrome, involving several organs and functions, whose clinical aspects greatly improve with the administration of human recombinant GH. The authors describe, evaluating the...
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| author | Giovanni Scanelli Luca Catapano Beatrice Traverso Claudia Aimoni |
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| description | The Growth Hormone (GH) continues to act lifelong: it has been described, in fact, an Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency (AGHD) syndrome, involving several organs and functions, whose clinical aspects greatly improve with the administration of human recombinant GH. The authors describe, evaluating the most recent data from the literature, the clinical picture, the pathophysiologic mechanisms, the diagnostic tools and the therapy of AGHD. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aab69a28f0654d78a56978706f5f90032023-12-02T07:10:37ZengPAGEPress PublicationsItalian Journal of Medicine1877-93441877-93522013-05-012341010.4081/itjm.2008.3.4252Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist?Giovanni ScanelliLuca CatapanoBeatrice TraversoClaudia AimoniThe Growth Hormone (GH) continues to act lifelong: it has been described, in fact, an Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency (AGHD) syndrome, involving several organs and functions, whose clinical aspects greatly improve with the administration of human recombinant GH. The authors describe, evaluating the most recent data from the literature, the clinical picture, the pathophysiologic mechanisms, the diagnostic tools and the therapy of AGHD.http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/298Adult growth hormone deficiency. |
| spellingShingle | Giovanni Scanelli Luca Catapano Beatrice Traverso Claudia Aimoni Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist? Italian Journal of Medicine Adult growth hormone deficiency. |
| title | Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist? |
| title_full | Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist? |
| title_fullStr | Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist? |
| title_short | Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist? |
| title_sort | adult growth hormone deficiency academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist |
| topic | Adult growth hormone deficiency. |
| url | http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/298 |
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