Accelerated growth in short children with chronic renal failure treated with both strict dietary therapy and recombinant growth hormone

In a 12-month study, nine boys, aged 4.8-15.6 years, with bone ages 4.6-13 years, with moderate to severe chronic renal failure and resultant growth failure were treated with daily recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH), in conjunction with a strict low-protein/low-phosphate diet supplemented with...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, West) West), 1992-09, Vol.6 (5), p.451-458
Hauptverfasser:	VAN RENEN, M. J, HOGG, R.J, SWEENEY, A. L, HENNING, P. H, PENFOLD, J. L, JUREIDINI, K. F
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Amino Acids - analysis Biological and medical sciences Blood Sedimentation Bone and Bones - diagnostic imaging Bone and Bones - drug effects Calcium - blood Child Child, Preschool Combined Modality Therapy Creatinine - urine Dietary Proteins - therapeutic use Food, Fortified - analysis Growth - drug effects Growth Disorders - complications Growth Disorders - drug therapy Growth Hormone - therapeutic use Histidine - analysis Humans Kidney - physiology Kidney Failure, Chronic - complications Kidney Failure, Chronic - diet therapy Kidney Failure, Chronic - drug therapy Male Medical sciences Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases Phosphorus, Dietary - therapeutic use Radiography Recombinant Proteins - therapeutic use Statistics as Topic Testosterone - blood Urea - urine
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