GROWTH-HORMONE AND RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
KAUFMAN DB
Citation
Db. Kaufman, GROWTH-HORMONE AND RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY - A CASE-REPORT, Pediatric nephrology, 12(2), 1998, pp. 157-159
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Urology & Nephrology
Journal title
Pediatric nephrology
ISSN journal
0931041X → ACNP
Volume
12
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
157 - 159
Database
ISI
SICI code
0931-041X(1998)12:2<157:GARO-A>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
A 14-year-old male with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis was tr eated with recombinant growth hormone for growth retardation. He devel oped severe renal osteodystrophy, which responded only to the disconti nuation of growth hormone.