Growth and puberty and its management in Thalassaemia

Hormone Research

Volumn 58, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages 72-79

  De Sanctis, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Ex thalassaemics; Growth; Iron overload; Puberty; Thalassaemia major

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GONADAL DISEASE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH RATE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOXIA; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL CHILD; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SHORT STATURE; SPERMATOGENESIS; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BODY HEIGHT; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CHILD; DEFEROXAMINE; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; MALE; PITUITARY GLAND; PUBERTY;

EID: 0036420133     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000064766     Document Type: Article

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