Constitutional Growth Delay

Constitutional Growth Delay and Familial Short Stature: A Guide for Families What is Short Stature? Doctors usually define short stature based on standard growth charts, rather…

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Child with Suspected Short Stature

Primary Care provider guidelines for referral.

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Cost-Conscious Growth-Promoting Treatment: When Discretion Is the Better Part of Value (HRP 2018)

A mini-review on cost-conscious growth-promoting treatment.

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GH Deficiency, Idiopathic Short Stature, and IGF-I Deficiency Treatment Guidelines (HRP 2016)

PES Drugs and Therapeutics and Ethics committees present guidelines for Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I Treatment in Children and Adolescents: Growth Hormone Deficiency, Idiopathic Short Stature, and Primary Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Deficiency.

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Use of Aromatase Inhibitors in Children and Adolescents with Disorders of Growth and Adolescent Development (Pediatrics 2008)

A review of published data regarding the use of aromatase inhibitors in pediatrics.

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Changes in Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Prescribing Information (PES D & T Committee 2008)

Members of the Drug and Therapeutics Committee of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society describe the changes in the prescribing information for the different forms of
rhGH.

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Growth Hormone (GH) Treatment to Final Height in Children with Idiopathic Short Stature: Evidence for a Dose Effect (The Journal of Pediatrics)

An open-label randomized study analyzing the effect of two doses of growth hormone (GH) on final height and height velocity during the first 2 years of treatment of children with idiopathic short stature.

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Effect of Growth Hormone Treatment on Adult Height in Peripubertal Children with Idiopathic Short Stature: A Randomized, Doubleblind, Placebo-Controlled Trial (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism)

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses Describing the Effect of Growth Hormone Treatment on Adult Height of Children with Idiopathic Short Stature

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Growth Hormone Treatment and Neoplasia – Coincidence or Consequence? (JCEM 2007)

The LWPES Writing Committee presents a special editorial on whether there is an association of growth hormone treatment and neoplasia.

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Historic Value: Standards from Birth to Maturity for Height, Weight, Height Velocity, and Weight Velocity: British Children (Part II) 1965

The origin of growth charts: part 2.

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