Can growth hormone treatment improve growth in children with severe growth failure due to anorexia nervosa? A preliminary pilot study.

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) is used to treat short stature and growth failure associated with growth disorders. Birth size and GH status variably modulate response to GH therapy. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of birth size on response to GH therapy, and to determine the impact of GH status in patients born...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Rapaport R,Lee P,Ross J,Saenger P,Ostrow V,Piccoli G

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with acromegaly can be treated with surgery, medical therapy and/or radiation therapy. For the patients not being cured with surgery, treatment with somatostatin analogues (SSAs) is the primary therapy. SSA can be taken by self- or partner-administered injections in addition to being given by a nu...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Follin C,Karlsson S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Koehrle J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Chromogranin A (CgA) and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) are important markers for neuroendocrine tumors; however, the clinical value of combining these markers has not been well studied. In this study, we investigated the utility of each marker individually and in combination for patients with nonfunctional panc...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Lv Y,Han X,Zhang C,Fang Y,Pu N,Ji Y,Wang D,Xuefeng X,Lou W

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to explore the relationship of the BRAFV600E mutation with clinicopathologic factors and evaluate the effect of radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy in a large group of intermediate- and high-risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients with the BRAFV600E mutation and without distant metastases....

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Zhu G,Deng Y,Pan L,Ouyang W,Feng H,Wu J,Chen P,Wang J,Chen Y,Luo J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient insulin release plays a crucial role in the development of unhealthy status in patients with obesity; the present study aimed to classify these patients by the indices for insulin resistance and insulin release. After the indices from OGTT were assessed to achieve high differentiability and low redundancy...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Li L,Song Q,Yang X

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to its incidence patterns, colorectal cancer (CRC) tends to occur more frequently in males than in females, and the evidence shows that CRC is a hormone-related tumor. These findings indicate that androgen receptor (AR) gene methylation might be important for the regulation of the CRC risk in the different s...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Xia T,Sun H,Huang H,Bi H,Pu R,Zhang L,Zhang Y,Liu Y,Xu J,Onwuka JU,Liu Y,Cui B,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Little is known about how women with isolated GnRH deficiency cope with their condition. This study aimed to examine the health and informational needs of women with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) and evaluate if their experiences differ from women with more common forms of infertility. DESIG...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Dzemaili S,Tiemensma J,Quinton R,Pitteloud N,Morin D,Dwyer AA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As many as 20-55% of patients with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) experience chronic endocrine dysfunction, leading to impaired quality of life, impaired rehabilitation efforts and lowered life expectancy. Endocrine dysfunction after TBI is thought to result from acceleration-deceleration forces to the brai...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Rowe RK,Rumney BM,May HG,Permana P,Adelson PD,Harman SM,Lifshitz J,Thomas TC

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antihypertensive actions of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP1) receptor agonists have been linked to the release of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in mice. Whether a GLP1-ANP axis exists in humans is unknown. In this study, we examined 12 healthy young males in a randomized, controlled, double-blinded, single-day, c...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Skov J,Holst JJ,Gøtze JP,Frøkiær J,Christiansen JS

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The current investigation examined the association between the aging-related biomarkers dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and telomere length (TL) in community-recruited African-American youth. The examination of DHEA included stress reactive, basal and diurnal sampling, in order to elucidate the underlying physiological ...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Dismukes AR,Meyer VJ,Shirtcliff EA,Theall KP,Esteves KC,Drury SS

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:Walking and postural balance are extremely important to obtain food and to work. Both are critical for quality of life and ability to survive. While walking reflects musculoskeletal and cardiopulmonary systems, postural balance depends on body size, muscle tone, visual, vestibular and nervous systems. Since ...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Santana-Ribeiro AA,Moreira-Brasileiro GA,Aguiar-Oliveira MH,Salvatori R,Carvalho VO,Alvim-Pereira CK,Araújo-Daniel CR,Reis-Costa JG,Andrade-Guimarães AL,Oliveira-Santos AA,Vieira ER,Gois-Junior MB

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic aetiology of congenital hypopituitarism (CH) is not entirely elucidated. FGFR1 and PROKR2 loss-of-function mutations are classically involved in hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism (HH), however, due to the clinical and genetic overlap of HH and CH; these genes may also be involved in the pathogenesis of CH. Us...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Correa FA,Trarbach EB,Tusset C,Latronico AC,Montenegro LR,Carvalho LR,Franca MM,Otto AP,Costalonga EF,Brito VN,Abreu AP,Nishi MY,Jorge AA,Arnhold IJ,Sidis Y,Pitteloud N,Mendonca BB

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to summarize and analyze the clinical manifestations, genetic characteristics, treatment modalities and long-term prognosis of congenital hyperinsulinemia (CHI) in Chinese children. Sixty children with CHI, who were treated at Beijing Children's Hospital from January 2014 to August 2017, and their fami...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Xu ZD,Zhang W,Liu M,Wang HM,Hui PP,Liang XJ,Yan J,Wu YJ,Sang YM,Zhu C,Ni GC

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormonal changes during pregnancy can trigger gestational diabetes (GDM), which is constantly increasing. Its main characteristic is pronounced insulin resistance, but it appears to be a multifactorial process involving several metabolic factors; taken together, the latter leads to silent or clinically evident cardiov...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Patti AM,Pafili K,Papanas N,Rizzo M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary aldosteronism (PA) is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity, presumably due to left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and fibrosis. However, the degree of fibrosis has not been extensively studied. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) contrast enhancement and novel sensitive T1 mapping to...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Grytaas MA,Sellevåg K,Thordarson HB,Husebye ES,Løvås K,Larsen TH

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the evolving trends in clinicopathological features of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and to analyze the predictors of recurrence after curative resection. Data collected retrospectively from a single center between January 1990 and December 2017 were analyzed. Patients were categorized ...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Kim H,Song KB,Hwang DW,Lee JH,Alshammary S,Kim SC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promotion of brown adipose tissue (BAT) activity or browning of white adipose tissue has shown great potential as anti-obesity strategy in numerous preclinical models. The discovery of active BAT in humans and the recent advances in the understanding of human BAT biology and function have significantly propelled this ...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Kiefer FW

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experience in the field of islet transplantation shows that it is possible to replace β cells in a patient with type 1 diabetes (T1D), but this cell therapy is limited by the scarcity of organ donors and by the danger associated to the immunosuppressive drugs. Stem cell therapy is becoming a concrete opportunity t...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Cito M,Pellegrini S,Piemonti L,Sordi V

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recently, mutations in KCNQ1, a potassium channel gene usually linked to long QT syndrome, were reported to cause maternally inherited gingival fibromatosis and growth hormone deficiency (GHD). Expression of the mutated KCNQ1 with the auxiliary potassium channel subunit KCNE2 was shown to reduce pituitary hor...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Iivonen AP,Känsäkoski J,Karppinen A,Kivipelto L,Schalin-Jäntti C,Karhu A,Raivio T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D deficiency is common in pregnant women and may contribute to adverse events in pregnancy such as preeclampsia (PET). To date, studies of vitamin D and PET have focused primarily on serum concentrations vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) later in pregnancy. The aim here was to determine whether a more...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Tamblyn JA,Jenkinson C,Larner DP,Hewison M,Kilby MD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor 2 (VPAC2) is widely distributed throughout the body and is also overexpressed in a variety of human neoplastic tissues. However, little is known about its precise tissue distribution, regulation and function, which is in part be due to the lack of specific monoclonal anti-VPA...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Schulz S,Mann A,Novakhov B,Piggins HD,Lupp A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many biomarkers are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk in epidemiological observations. The aim of this study was to identify and summarize current evidence for causal effects of biomarkers on T2D. A systematic literature search in PubMed and EMBASE (until April 2015) was done to identify Mendelian randomizati...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Abbasi A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Preoperative preparation for adrenalectomy for pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGL) is universally recognized as necessary, while the optimal strategy remains controversial. Our aims were to increase intraoperative hemodynamic stability, expedite postoperative recovery, decrease side effects and reduce c...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Liu C,Lv Q,Chen X,Ni G,Hu L,Tong N,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and objectives Glucocorticoids are used to manage adrenal insufficiency (AI). We describe treatments used in the United Kingdom and real-world clinical outcomes for each treatment. Methods We used 2010-2016 primary care data from The Health Improvement Network (THIN). Descriptive analyses were conducted, an...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Iqbal K,Halsby K,Murray RD,Carroll PV,Petermann R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroprolactinomas are the most common functional pituitary tumours. Hypotheses proposed to explain predominance of large tumours in males are: i) diagnostic delay, as hyperprolactinaemia remains under recognised in males and ii) gender-specific difference in tumour proliferation indices. Our study objectives are to c...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Khare S,Lila AR,Patt H,Yerawar C,Goroshi M,Bandgar T,Shah NS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Non-adherence to r-hGH treatments occurs in a variable percentage of subjects. One problem found when evaluating adherence is the great variability in methods of detection and definitions utilized in studies. This study assessed the level of adherence in subjects receiving r-hGH with the easypod™ electronic ...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Rodríguez Arnao MD,Rodríguez Sánchez A,Díez López I,Ramírez Fernández J,Bermúdez de la Vega JA,Yeste Fernández D,Chueca Guindulain M,Corripio Collado R,Pérez Sánchez J,Fernández González A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Worldwide there is a high prevalence of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) deficiency and has been associated with adverse outcomes during pregnancy. OBJECTIVE:This is a nested, case-control study in a longitudinal cohort to compare the serum 25OHD levels and other biomarkers throughout pregnancy in a group of 20 ...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Agudelo-Zapata Y,Maldonado-Acosta LM,Sandoval-Alzate HF,Poveda NE,Garcés MF,Cortés-Vásquez JA,Linares-Vaca AF,Mancera-Rodríguez CA,Perea-Ariza SA,Ramírez-Iriarte KY,Castro-Saldarriaga CA,Arteaga-Diaz JM,Franco-Vega R,Ángel-Müll

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and biomarkers can be used to detect early subclinical CVD. Midregional-pro-adrenomedullin (MR-proADM), midregional-pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (MR-proANP) and copeptin are all associated with CVD and part of ...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Frøssing S,Nylander M,Kistorp C,Skouby SO,Faber J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The value of postoperative radiotherapy in the treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) has not been unequivocally demonstrated. Therefore our study aimed to answer the question of whether adjuvant radiotherapy showed any impact on the risk of local recurrence and whether there were any differences in ...

journal_title：Endocrine connections

authors： Kukulska A,Krajewska J,Kolosza Z,Paliczka-Cieslik E,Kropinska A,Pawlaczek A,Puch Z,Ficek K,Lisik T,Sygula D,Wygoda Z,Roskosz J,Wydmanski J,Jarzab B

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00