Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in adult thalassaemic patients

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 790-795

  Scacchi, Massimo ^a   Danesi, Leila ^a   Cattaneo, Agnese ^a   Valassi, Elena ^a   Giraldi, Francesca Pecori ^a   Argento, Crocetta ^b   D'Angelo, Emanuela ^a   Mirra, Nadia ^a   Carnelli, Vittorio ^a   Zanaboni, Laura ^a   Cappellini, Maria Domenica ^a   Cavagnini, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Ospedale S Giovanni di Dio   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; CHOLINESTERASE; DEFEROXAMINE; DEFEROXAMINE MESYLATE; FERRITIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; SERMORELIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTO ENANT; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THALASSEMIA;

ADULT; ARGININE; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOCHOLINESTERASE;

EID: 35448988906     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02965.x     Document Type: Article

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