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13 mar 2023 · The primary management of short stature should aim at alleviating the underlying cause. Short stature caused due to underlying hormonal deficiency should be managed with hormonal treatment. Short stature due to bone diseases should aim at treating the disease.
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.
29 kwi 2024 · The most common cause of short stature is normal variants of growth. Sometimes, a related health condition restricts overall growth, but the trunk and limbs are in proportion. This is known...
2 kwi 2024 · Short stature may be either a variant of normal growth or caused by a disease. The most common causes of short stature beyond the first year or two of life are familial (genetic) short stature and delayed (constitutional) growth, which are normal, nonpathologic variants of growth.
15 lip 1999 · Summary. Clinical characteristics. Hypochondroplasia is a skeletal dysplasia characterized by short stature; stocky build; disproportionately short arms and legs; broad, short hands and feet; mild joint laxity; and macrocephaly.
4 lut 2011 · SHOX Gene. SHOX – the short stature homeobox-containing gene – was discovered by deletion mapping of the short arm of chromosome X by Rao et al. [1] and independently by Ellison et al. [2] who named the gene PHOG but published later.
The causes of short stature can be divided into 3 broad categories: chronic disease (including undernutrition genetic disorders), familial short stature, and constitutional...
