Growth Hormone Secretion in Children during Corticosteroid Treatment: Responses to Arginine

G. Gacs; E. Kun; Zs Czirbesz

doi:10.1055/s-0028-1093973

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Horm Metab Res 1973; 5(2): 106-108
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1093973

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Growth Hormone Secretion in Children during Corticosteroid Treatment: Responses to Arginine

G. Gacs , E. Kun , Zs. Czirbesz

II. Department of Pediatrics, Semmelweis University Medical School and Children's Hospital Heim Pál, Budapest, Hungary

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07 January 2009 (online)

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Abstract

Growth hormone response was studied during long term corticosteroid treatment in 13 children. Arginine infusion was used as the stimulus of growth hormone release. The growth hormone levels were significantly higher in the steroid treated group than in normal controls. There was no correlation between the dose of the drug or the duration of the treatment and growth hormone concentration.

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Growth Hormone Secretion - Arginine Provocative Test - Corticosteroid Treatment