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Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children: From Suspecting to Diagnosing.
Indian Pediatrics 2017 November 16
Isolated Growth hormone deficiency is an important and treatable cause of short stature. However, it is often difficult to diagnose the condition with certainty due to the lack of a single robust diagnostic test. Short children, other than those with the classical phenotype of immature chubby facies, truncal obesity and micropenis in boys, or those with history of cranial lesions with known association with hypopituitarism, should be evaluated for growth hormone deficiency only after excluding the other more common conditions. These children typically have height markedly below that expected for their midparental height with low height velocity and delayed bone age. Growth hormone levels should be checked by provocative testing, after ensuring that the child is euthyroid, and after priming with sex steroids if indicated. Low levels of Insulin-like growth factor 1 and Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 and pituitary abnormalities on neuroimaging provide important corroborative evidence to the diagnosis.
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