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44th Meeting of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes
44th Annual Meeting of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes 2016
CME Training Day
ea0045cme1 | CME Training Day | BSPED2016
GH deficiency vs GH insensitivity
A wide range of disorders must be considered when assessing a child with Short stature (SS). The growth hormone (GH)-IGF-1 axis is essential for normal foetal and childhood growth and defects at many points in the axis will result in growth impairment leading to childhood and adult SS. Severe SS causes physical and psychological disadvantages and the underlying defects may be associated with increased morbidity. Comprehensive investigation of patients with abnormal auxology sh...
ea0045cme7 | CME Training Day | BSPED2016
Rare forms of Rickets
Rickets is a disorder in which defective mineralisation of the growth plate occurs in growing children. The aetiology is due to deficiency of calcium and/or phosphate with hypophosphataemia being pivotal in the pathogenesis of all forms of rickets. It is convenient to classify rickets as calcipenic or phosphopenic depending on whether there is predominantly a deficiency of calcium or phosphate.Although nutritional rickets is the most well known and preva...
Endocrine Abstracts
ISSN 1470-3947 (print) | ISSN 1479-6848 (online)
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