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Growth hormone as a new treatment modality for short children with chronic renal failure. The German Study Group for Growth Hormone Treatment in Chronic Renal Failure. 1996
Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University Children's Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany.
Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) has become a new treatment modality for short children with chronic renal failure (CRF) and after renal transplantation. The rationale for high-dose rhGH treatment is the insensitivity of the uremic organism to GH. As the insensitivity to GH is expressed more in end-stage renal failure than in earlier stages of CRF, patients on dialysis respond less to rhGH. In transplanted children, rhGH can counterbalance the growth-depressing effects of corticosteroids. In prepubertal children, rhGH improves the height standard deviation score by a mean of +2 within 5 years. The effect of rhGH treatment on final height remains to be studied.
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