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ey0016.4-5 | New Therapeutic Options | ESPEYB16

4.5. The beneficial effect of combined GH/GnRHa therapy in increasing adult height outcome in children with ISS

L Lazar , S Levy , T Oron , J Meyerovitch , L de Vries , S Shalitin , A Tenenbaum , M Phillip , Y. Lebenthal

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019;104:3287-3295.The current definition of idiopathic short stature (ISS) refers to a heterogeneous group of short children, in the absence of any underlying detectable cause, including both normal variants of growth and pathological conditions. ISS subjects have been reported to reach an average final height of −1.5 SDS in boys...

ey0015.9-3 | Late consequences of tumour therapy: prevention and monitoring | ESPEYB15

9.3 Growth and pubertal patterns in young survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

S Elitzur , R Houri-Shtrecher , M Yackobovitz-Gavan , G Avrahami , S Barzilai , G Gilad , Y Lebenthal , M Phillip , B Stark , I Yaniv , S Shalitin

To read the full abstract: J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2017;30:869-877Several previous studies had focused on the early risk of metabolic syndrome or its components in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), while fewer data are available on pubertal development in these subjects. The merit of this study was to carefully investigate growth and pubertal development in a large ...