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  1. There is ample historical verification of 46,XX congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) patients being born with essentially male genitaliawhile outcome information is scant. Prior to glucocorticoid therapy, most...

    Authors: Peter A. Lee and Christopher P. Houk
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:982025
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  2. Children raised in orphanages frequently experience growth suppression due to multiple risk factors. Placing such children in more nurturing environments through adoption leads to significant catch-up growth (...

    Authors: Bradley S Miller, Maria G Kroupina, Patrick Mason, Sandra L Iverson, Christine Narad, John H Himes, Dana E Johnson and Anna Petryk
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:107252
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  3. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MeS) and its individual components in Jordanian children and adolescents aged 7–18 years and determine the factors that are associated with c...

    Authors: Yousef Khader, Anwar Batieha, Hashim Jaddou, Mohammed El-Khateeb and Kamel Ajlouni
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:316170
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  4. Lack of insulin results in a catabolic state in subjects with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus which is reversed by insulin treatment. Amino acid supply, especially branched chain amino acids such as leucin...

    Authors: Vardhini Desikan, Izolda Mileva, Jeremy Garlick, Andrew H. Lane, Thomas A. Wilson and Margaret A. McNurlan
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:493258
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  6. Patients with rare and complex diseases such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) often receive fragmented and inadequate care unless efforts are coordinated among providers. Translating the concepts of the...

    Authors: Richard J. Auchus, Selma Feldman Witchel, Kelly R. Leight, Javier Aisenberg, Ricardo Azziz, Tânia A. Bachega, Linda A. Baker, Arlene B. Baratz, Laurence S. Baskin, Sheri A. Berenbaum, David T. Breault, Barbara I. Cerame, Gerard S. Conway, Erica A. Eugster, Stephanie Fracassa, John P. Gearhart…
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:275213
    Content type: Guidelines Published on:

  7. Objective. The aim was to determine efficacy and safety of a surgical method to reduce adult height in extremely tall adolescents. Methods. Data for all girls ( http://static-content.springer.com/image/art%3A10.1155%2F2010%2F740629/MediaObjects/13633_2010_Article_441_IEq1_HTML.gif ...

    Authors: Emelie Benyi, Maria Berner, Inger Bjernekull, Anders Boman, Dionisios Chrysis, Ola Nilsson, Anne Waehre, Henrik Wehtje and Lars Sävendahl
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:740629
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  8. Objectives. To evaluate, in children with Silver-Russell Syndrome, the response to the IGF-I and IGFBP-3 generation test and compare results to the growth response after 6 months of rhGH. Methods. Eight children ...

    Authors: Izabel C.R. Beserra, Márcia G. Ribeiro, Paulo F. Collett-Solberg, Mário Vaisman and Marília M. Guimarães
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:546854
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  9. Objective. This study describes the magnitude and characteristics of nutritional rickets and associated risk factors among children in Qatar. Subjects. A consecutive sample of 730 healthy subjects who visited the...

    Authors: Abdulbari Bener and Georg F. Hoffmann
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:410502
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  10. Transdermal testosterone gels are used in the treatment of hypoandrogenism of males. Virilization due to exposure to testosterone gels has been reported in children resulting in a US Food and Drug Administrati...

    Authors: Anisha Patel and Scott A. Rivkees
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:867471
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  11. To assess gender-, pubertal-, age-related differences in change from baseline height standard deviation score ( http://static-content.springer.com/image/art%3A10.1155%2F2010%2F494656/MediaObjects/13633_2010_Article_422_IEq1_HTML.gif ), data from 5,797 growth...

    Authors: Judith Ross, Peter A. Lee, Robert Gut and John Germak
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:494656
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  12. Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (FD) associated to McCune-Albright Syndrome (MAS) often leads to fractures, deformities, and bone pain resulting in bad quality of life. Parenteral bisphosphonates have been used ...

    Authors: Ana Luiza Andrade Aragão and Ivani Novato Silva
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:432060
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  13. Osteoporosis has been an understandable concern for children and adult patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) who may receive or have received supraphysiological doses of glucocorticoids. Some prev...

    Authors: Anne Bachelot, Zeina Chakhtoura, Dinane Samara-Boustani, Jérome Dulon, Philippe Touraine and Michel Polak
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:326275
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  14. Our purpose was to determine pediatric endocrinologists' knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices (KABPs) regarding recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) treatment, examine care-related attitude consensu...

    Authors: Bradley S. Miller, Dorothy I. Shulman, Alicia Shillington, Qing Harshaw, Darrell M. Wilson, David Schwartz, Michael Kappy, Bert Bakker and David Wyatt
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:891571
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  15. Objective. To assess the impact of exercise consultation on physical activity (PA) levels, anthropometric measures, and metabolic markers in obese adolescents. Methods. Obese adolescents (14–18 years) were random...

    Authors: M. Henderson, D. Daneman, C. Huot, J. McGrath, M. Lambert, J. Hux, G. L. Booth and A. Hanley
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:681510
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  16. Background. Our knowledge on long-term outcome in CAH remains incomplete. Methods. In a prospective study (33 CAH patients, 33 age-matched controls), reproductive outcomes, self-rating of genital appearance and f...

    Authors: T. H. Johannsen, C. P. L. Ripa, E. Carlsen, J. Starup, O. H. Nielsen, M. Schwartz, K. T. Drzewiecki, E. L. Mortensen and K. M. Main
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:784297
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  17. We provide evidence regarding the nature, causes, and consequences of intelligence in patients with 21-hydroxylase deficient congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). Intelligence and quality of life (psychologica...

    Authors: Sheri A. Berenbaum, Kristina Korman Bryk and Stephen C. Duck
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:853103
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  18. The Gender Medicine Team (GMT), comprised of members with expertise in endocrinology, ethics, genetics, gynecology, pediatric surgery, psychology, and urology, at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College o...

    Authors: Ganka Douglas, Marni E. Axelrad, Mary L. Brandt, Elizabeth Crabtree, Jennifer E. Dietrich, Shannon French, Sheila Gunn, Lefkothea Karaviti, Monica E. Lopez, Charles G. Macias, Laurence B. McCullough, Deepa Suresh and Reid V. Sutton
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:919707
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  19. Psychological outcomes in persons with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) have received substantial attention. The objectives of this paper were to (1) catalog psychological endpoints assessed in CAH outcome...

    Authors: Stephanie A. Stout, Margarita Litvak, Natashia M. Robbins and David E. Sandberg
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:191520
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  20. Background. Excess adiposity and premature adrenarche (PA) are risk factors for the development of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Methods. Girls with slowly progressive precocious breast development, who were ...

    Authors: Brian Bordini, Elizabeth Littlejohn and Robert L. Rosenfield
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:724696
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  21. We describe acute myopathy following I-131 treatment for hyperthyroidism due to Graves Disease (GD) in an adolescent. A 15 year-old diagnosed with GD required treatment with radioactive iodine (I-131) therapy....

    Authors: Valeria C. Benavides and Scott A. Rivkees
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:717303
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  22. Classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia affects approximately 1 in 15,000 children. Current treatment strategies using multiple daily doses of hydrocortisone lead to suboptimal outcomes. We tested the hypothesi...

    Authors: Andrew Dauber, Henry A. Feldman and Joseph A. Majzoub
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:347636
    Content type: Clinical study Published on:

  23. There is increasing use of antipsychotic drugs in pediatric and psychiatry practice for a wide range of behavioral and affective disorders. These drugs have prominent side effects of interest to pediatric endo...

    Authors: Arlan L Rosenbloom
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:159402
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

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  25. Our objective was to determine the impact of telemedicine (TM) interventions on the management of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) in youth. We performed a systematic review of randomized trials that evaluated TM interv...

    Authors: Rayzel M. Shulman, Clodagh S. O'Gorman and Mark R. Palmert
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:536957
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  26. Background. Adrenal insufficiency is a life-threatening event. It is recommended that patients with known adrenal insufficiency and their families receive careful and repeated education on sick-day glucocorticoid...

    Authors: Bahareh Schweiger, Philip Zeitler, Scott Eppley, Marguerite Swietlik and Jennifer Barker
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:964525
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  27. Objective. To evaluate the relationship between adiponectin and physical activity (PA) in minority female youth. Methods. Plasma adiponectin was measured in 39 females (mean age ...

    Authors: B Adar Emken, Joyce Richey, Britni Belcher, Ya-Wen Hsu and Donna Spruijt-Metz
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:846070
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  29. Objective. To characterize the pediatric endocrinologists' evaluation and followup of short-statured patients. Study Design. Observational study of 21,548 short-statured children (April 1996 to December 1999). Ba...

    Authors: David Wyatt, Katrina L. Parker, Stephen F. Kemp, Jane Chiang and D. Aaron Davis
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:652013
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  30. Despite decades of different treatment algorithms, the management of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) remains clinically challenging. This is due to the inherent difficulty of suppressing adrenal androgen ...

    Authors: Karen J. Loechner, James T. McLaughlin and Ali S. Calikoglu
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:670960
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  31. Little is known about the long-term health-related quality of life (HRQL) and mental health outcomes for women diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a disorder of sex development. Though recomme...

    Authors: Matthew A. Malouf, Arpana G. Inman, Amanda G. Carr, Jill Franco and Lindsey M. Brooks
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:253465
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  32. Context. There is limited data comparing results of fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNABs) to histological diagnosis in children. Design. FNABs were performed in 707 children and cytological results were compare...

    Authors: Victoria Hoperia, Alexander Larin, Kirk Jensen, Andrew Bauer and Vasily Vasko
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:690108
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  33. In the era of advocacy groups, it seems appropriate to contemplate how best to utilize them for patient benefit in the management of those with disorders of sex development (DSD), including those with congenit...

    Authors: Peter A. Lee and Christopher P. Houk
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:563640
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  34. Crouzon syndrome is one of the most common craniofacial syndromes and is inherited as autosomal dominant with variable expression. We report an 11 and a half-year-old boy with Crouzon syndrome with severe grow...

    Authors: Mei-Hong Wen, Hui-Pin Hsiao, Mei-Chyn Chao and Fuu-Jen Tsai
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:876514
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  35. Purpose. To determine the relationship between having a child with a DSD including ambiguous external genitalia, as well as the decision of whether or not to have early genitoplasty for that child, on the mental ...

    Authors: David A. Fedele, Katherine Kirk, Cortney Wolfe-Christensen, Timothy M. Phillips, Tom Mazur, Larry L. Mullins, Steven D. Chernausek and Amy B. Wisniewski
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:690674
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  36. Nonclassic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (NCAH) due to P450c21 (21-hydroxylase deficiency) is a common autosomal recessive disorder. This disorder is due to mutations in the CYP21A2 gene which is located at chro...

    Authors: Selma Feldman Witchel and Ricardo Azziz
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:625105
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  38. Background/Aims. 20 Kilodalton-hGH (20 K-hGH) is the second most abundant pituitary GH variant after 22 K-hGH. In the steady state the proportion of 20 : 22 K-hGH appears constant; does this proportion change wit...

    Authors: Emma A. Webb, P. Jane Pringle, Iain C. A. F. Robinson and Peter C. Hindmarsh
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:781317
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  39. Despite the advent of sensitive and specific serologic testing, routine screening for celiac disease (CD) in diabetic populations may not be universal practice, and many clinicians struggle to find the optimal...

    Authors: Shama Sud, Margaret Marcon, Esther Assor, Mark R Palmert, Denis Daneman and Farid H Mahmud
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:161285
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  41. Aim. To identify dysmorphic features and cardiac, skeletal, and urogenital anomalies in patients with congenital hypothyroidism. Patients and Methods. Seventeen children with congenital primary hypothyroidism wer...

    Authors: P. Amaresh Reddy, G. Rajagopal, C. V. Harinarayan, V. Vanaja, D. Rajasekhar, V. Suresh and Alok Sachan
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:940980
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  42. Steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency accounts for about 95% of cases of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). Newborns are currently being screened for the classical forms of this disease throughout the United St...

    Authors: Phyllis W. Speiser, Ricardo Azziz, Laurence S. Baskin, Lucia Ghizzoni, Terry W. Hensle, Deborah P. Merke, Heino F.L. Meyer-Bahlburg, Walter L. Miller, Victor M. Montori, Sharon E. Oberfield, Martin Ritzen and Perrin C. White
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:494173
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  43. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), most commonly due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD), has been studied by pediatric endocrinologists for decades. Advances in the care of these patients have enabled man...

    Authors: Richard J. Auchus
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:614107
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  44. Objective. Retrospective single-centre analysis of growth characteristics in 182 healthy short children born small for gestational age (SGA) or appropriate for gestational age (idiopathic short stature, ISS). Met...

    Authors: Janina Caliebe, David D. Martin, Michael B. Ranke and Jan M. Wit
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:852967
    Content type: Clinical Study Published on:

  46. Hydrocortisone has long been the treatment of choice for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). However, treatment with this medication remains problematic. Patients with 21-hydroxylase deficiency CAH have sign...

    Authors: John S. Fuqua, Deborah Rotenstein and Peter A. Lee
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:712549
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  47. The use of long-acting glucocorticoids in the treatment of individuals with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) has been greeted with controversy. Avoidance of dexamethasone therapy is in part due to the mist...

    Authors: Scott A. Rivkees
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:569680
    Content type: Review Article Published on:

  48. Objective. This report describes a severe case of hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome complicated by rhabdomyolysis, acute kidney injury, hyperthermia, and hypovolemic shock, with management centred upon fluid ad...

    Authors: Srinivas Murthy and Rana Sharara-Chami
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:379063
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  50. Objectives. To determine the sedative and respiratory effects of clonidine when used to evaluate growth hormone (GH) secretion in children with Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS). Methods. The study prospectively evalua...

    Authors: Gregory A Hollman, David B Allen, Jens C Eickhoff and Aaron L Carrel
    Citation: International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology 2010 2010:103742
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

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