OXANDROLONE THERAPY IN SKELETAL DYSPLASIA


BUYUKGEBIZ A., KOVANLIKAYA I.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS, cilt.35, sa.3, ss.189-196, 1993 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 35 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 1993
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.189-196
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: SKELETAL DYSPLASIA, GROWTH, OXANDROLONE THERAPY
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Three patients with short stature and different forms of skeletal dysplasia were treated with oxandrolone, 1.25 mg/day. All patients had a normal growth hormone response (10 ng/ml) to the insulin-induced hypoglycemia test (ITT). After one year of follow-up, it was noted that the pretreatment growth rate which was 2 5 cm/yr in the patient with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (chronological age, 13 4/12 yr) had increased to 6.7 cm/yr after one year of treatment, while the pretreatment growth rate of the patient with hypochrondroplasia (chronological age, 12 7/12 yr) which was recorded at 2 cm/yr had risen to 5.3 cm/yr. The patient with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (chronological age, 9 5/12 yr) had a pretreatment growth rate of 1.5 cm/yr which had risen to 8 cm/yr after the same period of treatment. An increase was noted in the height standard deviation score for chronological age and in the height standard deviation score for bone age in all patients. After one year of therapy, all patients were observed to still be in the prepubertal stage.