Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To study hormonal results of investigation of adolescents (boys) with delay of puberty.

Materials and methods: We choice 32 teenagers from 106 boys with symptoms of delay of puberty development in the age of 15 years old. They were underwent general clinical examination as well as biochemical and hormonal investigations (levels of LH, FSH, GH, testosterone, prolactin, cortisol, TSH, T₄, radio-immunological lab of The Center of Endocrinology, PhD, Abdurakhmanova A.M.).

Results: The hormonal investigation of 32 boys allowed diagnosing a number of different disorders. The mean level of LH was 2.8 mME/l (5.1±0.6), FSH – 3.4 mME/l (6.1±4.9), TSH – 1.82 mME/l, total testosterone – 8.9 ng/ml (mean 6.24 ng/ml), prolactin – 7.4 nmol/l (5.8), cortisol – 289.25 nmol/l (250–720), and T₄ – 17.4 ng/ml.

Conclusions: i) The hormonal investigation of teenagers with mean age 15 years old submitted, that most of our patients (29 from 32) had hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (90.6%) and ii) only one patient had hypergonadotropic hypogonadism (3.1%).