Sizes of abdominal organs in adults with severe short stature due to severe, untreated, congenital GH deficiency caused by a homozygous mutation in the GHRH receptor gene.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.03148.x

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Sizes of abdominal organs in adults with severe short stature due to severe, untreated, congenital GH deficiency caused by a homozygous mutation in the GHRH receptor gene.

Clinical endocrinology - 1 Jul 2008

Oliveira Carla R P, Salvatori Roberto, Nóbrega Luciana M A, Carvalho Erick O M, Menezes Menilson, Farias Catarine T, Britto Allan V O, Pereira Rossana M C, Aguiar-Oliveira Manuel H

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OBJECTIVE: To assess the sizes of intra-abdominal organs of adult subjects with untreated severe congenital isolated GH deficiency (IGHD) due to lack of functional GHRH receptor (GHRH-R), and to verify whether there is proportionality between size of organ and adult stature and body surface area (BSA). SUBJECTS AND METHODS: By using ultrasound, we studied the sizes (absolute and corrected by height, weight and...

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Sizes of abdominal organs in adults with severe short stature due to severe, untreated, congenital GH deficiency caused by a homozygous mutation in the GHRH receptor gene.

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