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Growth Retardation in Children with Chronic Renal Failure
1 Oct 1999
Abstract excerpt
Growth retardation is a major obstacle to full rehabilitation of children with chronic renal failure (CRF). Several factors have been identified as contributors to impaired linear growth and they include protein and calorie malnutrition, metabolic acidosis, growth hormone resistance, anemia, and renal osteodystrophy. Although therapeutic interventions such as the use of recombinant human growth hormone,...
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