ABSTRACT
Treatment with oral testosterone undecanoate (40 mg daily) in 9 boys diagnosed as having constitutional delayed growth and puberty (CDGP) was studied. The mean chronological age was 12.1+ 1.7 years and the mean duration of treatment was 0.7+ 0.3 year. The height velocity was increased from 3.9+ 2.1 cm per year before treatment up to 8.1+ 2.3 cm per year treatment (p=0.003). However, the predicted adult height was not different between pre and post treatment. Eighty-nine percent of children reached the pubertal testicular size after treatment. Therefore, oral testosterone undecanoate was proved to be effective to improve height velocity but the predicted adult height in CDGP boys.
ABSTRACT
Serum IGF-I,IGF-II and IGFBP-3 levels were measured by radio-immunometric assay in 24 children, 16 with isolated growth hormone deficiencies (GHD) and 8 with panhypopituitarism. AII serum parameters were significantly lower in panhypopituitarism than in isolated GHD. Serum IGF-I levels were lower than the normal range in 50 percent of the patients. However, 66.7 percent of isolated GHD children older than 10 years had serum IGF-I levels lower than the normal range. AII isolated GHD children had serum IGFBP-3 levels lower than the 50th percentile or mean of normal range. Combined IGF-I and IGF-II levels had no more advantage than IGF-L levels in the diagnosis of isolated GHD. Serum IGFII levels were lower than normal range in 87.5 percent. In conclusion, serum IGFBP-3 measurement is useful than IGF-I in all age groups. Low serum IGF-II levels and panhypopituitarism were demonstrated in this study.