Session Title: Challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of short stature attributed to GH deficiency
Brief Description: Discussion regarding the diagnosis and treatment of growth hormone deficiency.
Learning objectives:
- Explain why Growth hormone stimulation testing is of diagnostic value in a subset of children
- Explain why GST+ clinical history reveals a diagnostic continuum
- Explain why erroneous GHD in late childhood can be limited/corrected with pre-pubertal sex-hormone priming/pubertal GH discontinuation
Speaker:
David Allen, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Head of Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology
Director, Diabetes/Endocrinology Fellowship
UW American Family Children’s Hospital-Madison