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ey0015.9-9 | Growth, growth hormone and puberty in chronic diseases: novel insights from clinical practice | ESPEYB15

9.9 Growth hormone treatment improves final height and nutritional status of children with chronic kidney disease and growth deceleration

C Bizzarri , A Lonero , M Delvecchio , L Cavallo , MF Faienza , M Giordano , L Dello Strologo , M Cappa

To read the full abstract: J Endocrinol Invest. 2018;41:325-331Growth failure is common in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and has a multifactorial etiology. The hypothalamus-pituitary axis is intact, but there is a resistance to growth hormone (GH) action in target tissues, secondary to decreased density of GH receptors, impaired signal transduction and reduced levels of free insu...

ey0018.2-9 | Neonatal diabetes mellitus | ESPEYB18

2.9. Differences between transient neonatal diabetes mellitus subtypes can guide diagnosis and therapy.

R Bonfanti , D Iafusco , I Rabbone , G Diedenhofen , C Bizzarri , PI Patera , P Reinstadler , F Costantino , V Calcaterra , L Iughetti , S Savastio , A Favia , F Cardella , D Lo Presti , Y Girtler , S Rabbiosi , G D'Annunzio , A Zanfardino , A Piscopo , F Casaburo , L Pintomalli , L Russo , V Grasso , N Minuto , M Mucciolo , A Novelli , A Marucci , B Piccini , S Toni , F Silvestri , P Carrera , A Rigamonti , G Frontino , M Trada , D Tinti , M Delvecchio , N Rapini , R Schiaffini , C Mammi , F Barbetti

Eur J Endocrinol. 2021 Apr;184(4):575–585. doi: 10.1530/EJE-20-1030. PMID: 33606663.These authors examined the likelihood of remission of diabetes without pharmacological therapy in a retrospective analysis of 34 Italian patients with Transient neonatal diabetes (TNDM).TNDM is a type of neonatal diabetes that remits within the first a few months of life. It is most ...