Adult growth hormone deficiency: academic extravagance or real clinical entity for the internist?

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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Main Authors:	Giovanni Scanelli, Luca Catapano, Beatrice Traverso, Claudia Aimoni
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	PAGEPress Publications 2013-05-01
Series:	Italian Journal of Medicine
Subjects:	Adult growth hormone deficiency.
Online Access:	http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/298

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