Classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency in Croatia between 1995 and 2006

Hormone Research

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 247-251

  Dumic, Katja ^a   Krnic, Nevena ^a   Skrabic, Veselin ^b   Stipancic, Gordana ^c   Cvijovic, Katarina ^a   Kusec, Vesna ^d   Stingl, Katarina ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^d Department of Pediatrics   (Croatia)

Author keywords

21 Hydroxylase deficiency; Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, incidence; Salt wasting CAH; Simple virilizing CAH

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALT WASTING; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; AGE OF ONSET; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROATIA; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 70349757000     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000236086     Document Type: Article

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