Growth hormone deficiency - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Diagnosis Of Growth Hormone Deficiency
Pediatric endocrinologists are the physicians who specialize in diagnosis and treatment of growth hormone deficiency and growth problems ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pituitary Gland: Encyclopedia - Pituitary Gland
The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland about the size of a pea that sits in the small, bony cavity (sella turcica) at ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Diseases Starting With G: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Diseases Starting With G - Ga
List of diseases starting with G - Gal-Gap. Galactorrhea Galactocoele Galactokinase deficiency Galactorrhoea-Hyperprolactinaemia Galac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 1. Infectious And Parasitic Diseases 001-139
List of ICD-9 codes - Intestinal infectious diseases 001-009. (001) Cholera (002) Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers (003) Other Salmonell...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Treatment: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Treatment - Other Gh Uses And Treatment Indications
In the last two decades, GH has also been increasingly used for children and adults who are not severely deficient, either to enhance gro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hgh Controversies: Encyclopedia Ii - Hgh Controversies - Background On Hgh And Terminology
HGH and hGH refer to "human growth hormone." The reader may be curious as to why only this hormone is still often referred to as "human" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Treatment: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Treatment - Terminology And Glossary
Growth hormone (GH) is also called somatotropin (British: somatotrophin). The human form of growth hormone is known as human growth hormo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Diseases Starting With G: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Diseases Starting With G - Go
List of diseases starting with G - Gol-Gon. Goldberg Bull syndrome Goldberg syndrome Goldblatt Wallis syndrome Goldblatt Wallis Zieff ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Diseases Starting With G: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Diseases Starting With G - Gl
List of diseases starting with G - Gla-Gli. Glanzmann thrombasthenia Glass Chapman Hockley syndrome Glaucoma ecopia microspherophakia ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Treatment: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Treatment - Treatment Of Gh Deficiency In Children
Growth hormone deficiency is treated by replacing GH. All GH prescribed in North America, Europe, and most of the rest of the world is a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Diseases Starting With G: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Diseases Starting With G - Gr
List of diseases starting with G - Gra-Gri. Graft versus host disease Graham Boyle Troxell syndrome Grand Kaine Fulling syndrome Grant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Treatment: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Treatment - Ethical Issues
Hormone treatment seems an unlikely source of social controversy, but for four decades, growth hormone has been second only to estrogens ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hgh Controversies: Encyclopedia Ii - Hgh Controversies - The Origin Of The Hgh Industry: Rudman And Klatz
Although endocrinologists and other scientists interested in aging were asking this question as early as the 1970s and there were some un...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hgh Controversies: Encyclopedia Ii - Hgh Controversies - Unproven Aspects Of Real Gh Use In Aging Adults
The Rudman study attracted much public attention. A number of scientific studies attempted to replicate and address the questions raised ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hgh Controversies: Encyclopedia Ii - Hgh Controversies - Background On Hormonal Aspects Of Aging
Most of the changes of the human body after age 30 are unwelcome, and are referred to as aging. For all of recorded history, people have ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hgh Controversies: Encyclopedia Ii - Hgh Controversies - Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency
The features of adult growth hormone deficiency include poor maintenance of lean body mass, with reduced muscle strength and diminished b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Treatment: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Treatment - Risks Of Gh Treatment
Known risks of GH are few and rare. Few reasonable parents or physicians would incur a high risk of harm to a child to add a few inches t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Treatment: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Treatment - Treatment Of Adult Gh Deficiency
Research has shown that GH treatment can provide a number of measurable benefits to severely GH-deficient adults, such as enhanced energy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Diseases Starting With G: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Diseases Starting With G - Ge
List of diseases starting with G - Gee-Gem. Geen Sandford Davison syndrome Gelatinous ascites Geleophysic dwarfism Gelineau disease Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 6. Diseases Of The Nervous System And Sense Organs 320-389
List of ICD-9 codes - inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system 320-326. (320) Bacterial meningitis (320.0) Meningitis, hem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 17. Injury And Poisoning 800-999
List of ICD-9 codes - fracture of skull 800-804. (800) Fracture of vault of skull (801) Fracture of base of skull (802) Fracture of fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 8. Diseases Of The Respiratory System 460-519
List of ICD-9 codes - acute respiratory infections 460-466. (460) Acute nasopharyngitis (common cold) (461) Acute sinusitis (461.0) S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 5. Mental Disorders 290-319
List of ICD-9 codes - psychoses 290-299. List of ICD-9 codes - organic psychotic conditions 290-294. (290) Senile and presenile orga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 4. Diseases Of The Blood And Blood-forming Organs 280-289
List of ICD-9 codes - diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs 280-289. (280) Iron deficiency anemias (280.0) Iron deficiency a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 2. Neoplasms 140-239
Excellent overview here of primary/secondary/in situ/benign List of ICD-9 codes - malignant neoplasm of lip oral cavity and pharynx 140-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 3. Endocrine Nutritional And Metabolic Diseases And Immunity Disorders 240-279
List of ICD-9 codes - disorders of thyroid gland 240-246. (240) Simple and unspecified goiter (240.9) Goiter, unspec. (241) Nontoxi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 9. Diseases Of The Digestive System 520-579
List of ICD-9 codes - diseases of oral cavity salivary glands and jaws 520-529. (520) Disorders of tooth development and eruption (521...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 7. Diseases Of The Circulatory System 390-459
List of ICD-9 codes - acute rheumatic fever 390-392. (390) Rheumatic fever without mention of heart involvement (391) Rheumatic fever ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 10. Diseases Of The Genitourinary System 580-629
List of ICD-9 codes - nephritis nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis 580-589. (580) Acute glomerulonephritis (580.9) Glomerulonephritis, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 16. Symptoms Signs And Ill-defined Conditions 780-799
List of ICD-9 codes - symptoms 780-789. (780) General symptoms (780.0) Alteration of consciousness (780.01) Coma, nondiabetic, nonhe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 14. Congenital Anomalies 740-759
List of ICD-9 codes - congenital anomalies 740-759. (740) Anencephalus and similar anomalies (740.0) Anencephalus (741) Spina bifid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 15. Certain Conditions Originating In The Perinatal Period 760-779
List of ICD-9 codes - maternal causes of perinatal morbidity and mortality 760-763. (760) Fetus or newborn affected by material condit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 13. Diseases Of The Musculoskeletal System And Connective Tissue 710-739
List of ICD-9 codes - arthropathies and related disorders 710-719. (710) Diffuse diseases of connective tissue (710.0) Systemic lupus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 11. Complications Of Pregnancy Childbirth And The Puerperium 630-676
List of ICD-9 codes - ectopic and molar pregnancy 630-633. (630) Hydatidiform mole (631) Other abnormal product of conception (632) Ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Icd-9 Codes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Icd-9 Codes - 12. Diseases Of The Skin And Subcutaneous Tissue 680-709
List of ICD-9 codes - infections of skin and subcutaneous tissue 680-686. (680) Carbuncle and furuncle (680.0) Boil, face (680.1) Boi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Treatment Of Gh Deficiency
GH deficiency is treated by replacing GH. Until 1985, growth hormone for treatment was obtained by extraction from human pituitary glands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - History
Perhaps the most famous person who exemplified the appearance of untreated congenital growth hormone deficiency was Charles Sherwood Stra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Causes Of Gh Deficiency
There are many causes of GH deficiency. Some examples include: mutations of specific genes (e.g., GHRHR, GH1) congenital malformations i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Terminology
The term hypopituitarism is often used interchangeably with GH deficiency by endocrinologists but more often denotes GH deficiency plus d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Adult Gh Deficiency
Though growth ends with sexual maturity, GH continues to be secreted throughout life. In adults, GH contributes to maintenance of muscle ...   » Read the article