Kenneth A Pass,Eurico Carmago Neto
Kenneth A Pass
Congenital hypothyroidism and congenital adrenal hyperplasia are included in many newborn screening (NBS) panels worldwide and in all state-sponsored programs in the United States. Both conditions meet the fundamental prerequisites for NBS:...
Recent consensus statements in pediatric endocrinology: a selective review [0.03%]
儿科内分泌学近期共识声明的选择性回顾
Michelle Klein,Anpalakan Sathasivam,Yeray Novoa et al.
Michelle Klein et al.
Clinical guidelines and consensus statements serve to summarize and organize current knowledge on diverse subjects, and provide practical guidelines for proper clinical management. Recommendations should be based on research and evidence de...
Sofia Shapiro,Robert Rapaport
Sofia Shapiro
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), also referred to as holistic, or integrative, medicine, are terms that describe a heterogeneous collection of nontraditional therapies, from chemical substances, to biofeedback, to prayer. This ...
Diane K Wherrett,Denis Daneman
Diane K Wherrett
Prevention of loss of beta cells in type 1 diabetes is a major goal of current research. Knowledge of the genetic susceptibility, increasing ability to predict who may be at risk, recognition of the potential clinical impact of residual ins...
Optimizing potential for fertility: fertility preservation considerations for the pediatric endocrinologist [0.03%]
儿科内分泌学家的生育力保存考虑因素：优化生育潜力
Peter A Lee,Alan Rogol,Christopher P Houk
Peter A Lee
Whether for the prepubertal or pubertal child, the goal of fertility preservation is to obtain cells or tissues to be used to produce future children. For the prepubertal child, preservation efforts involve germ cells, earlier forms of sper...
Henrietta Kotlus Rosenberg
Henrietta Kotlus Rosenberg
Duplex/color Doppler sonography (US) is the imaging modality of choice for the evaluation of patients with primary amenorrhea. Careful correlation with clinical history, physical examination and laboratory findings significantly narrows the...
Vidhya Viswanathan,Erica A Eugster
Vidhya Viswanathan
Adequate functioning at all levels of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis is necessary for normal gonadal development and subsequent sex steroid production. Deficiencies at any level of the axis can lead to a hypogonadal state. The caus...
Saroj Nimkarn,Karen Lin-Su,Maria I New
Saroj Nimkarn
Steroid 21 hydroxylase deficiency is the most common form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The severity of this disorder depends on the extent of impaired enzymatic activity, which is caused by various mutations of the 21 hydroxylas...
Bradley N Delman
Bradley N Delman
Evaluation of the sella and surrounding structures in pediatric endocrinopathies is best performed with high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging. Adequate assessment relies not only on determining the size and shape of the gland but also ...