Screening of growth hormone deficiency in short thalassaemic patients and effect of L-carnitine treatment

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-95

  Beshlawy, Amal El ^a   Abd El Dayem, Soha M ^b   El Mougy, Fatma ^c   Abd El Gafar, Esmat ^b   Samir, Hend ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Growth hormone; L carnitine treatment; Thalassaemia

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; CLONIDINE; GROWTH HORMONE; HEMOGLOBIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; PROVOCATION TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE;

EID: 77949387231     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2010.13513     Document Type: Article

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