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15 maj 2024 · TS affects multiple organs through all stages of life, necessitating multidisciplinary care. This guideline extends previous ones and includes important new advances, within diagnostics and genetics, estrogen treatment, fertility, co-morbidities, and neurocognition and neuropsychology.
27 gru 2013 · This chapter examines the everyday experiences of short women, focusing on the problems they face and the coping strategies used to navigate being short in a heightist society. Further, this chapter views height as a stigmatized identity, which both negatively and positively impacts short women.
This study provides a controlled assessment of the psychological (and physical) effects of growth hormone treatment. Fifteen short 'normal' children (height SD score < -2) have been treated with...
In this review, we discuss the relatively more frequently seen syndromes, i.e. Noonan syndrome (NS), Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) and Aarskog-Scott syndrome (ASS), which all have severe or moderate short stature as a common feature.
Introduction. Noonan, Turner, and Prader-Willi syndromes are classical genetic conditions that share poor linear growth as a common feature. While the three syndromes share some characteristic features, each represents a vastly different genetic defect (sex chromosome aneuploidy, autosomal dominant mutation, and errors in genomic imprinting).
23 mar 2017 · Clinicians treating girls with TS are challenged with many endocrine, genetic, cardiovascular, developmental, reproductive and psychosocial issues. Medical care of girls with TS in child-centered healthcare systems is therefore highly specialized (3, 4, 5, 6).
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex endocrine and metabolic disorder, featuring anovulation, hyperandrogenism and polycystic ovarian morphology.1 2 It is estimated that 5%–18% of reproductive age women worldwide are affected by the condition.3 Its treatment varies and needs to be tailored according to symptoms, age and metabolic ...
