Ayla Güven, Ayşe Nurcan Cebeci, Suna Hancili
OBJECTIVE: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) can be complicated by central precocious puberty (CPP) in children, which may compromise final height. We aimed to evaluate the effect of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog (GnRHa) therapy on growth in children with CAH …
Assimina Galli-Tsinopoulou, Ioannis Kyrgios, Eleftheria Emmanouilidou, Ioanna Maggana, Eleni Kotanidou, Paraskevi Kokka, Charilaos Stylianou
Floating-Harbor Syndrome (FHS) is a very rare condition of unknown etiology characterized by short stature, delayed bone age, characteristic facial features, delayed language skills and usually normal motor development …
Nicos Skordis, Eleana Ferrari, Aria Antoniadou, Leonidas A. Phylactou, Pavlos Fanis, Vassos Neocleous
This case report describes a 47,XXX girl who presented very early, at the age of 14 months, with signs of sexual precocity (breast and pubic hair development, menarche) and was finally diagnosed with GnRH dependent precocious puberty with no evidence of underlying central nervous system pathology. Molecular testing did not identify any genetic defect in any of the genes tested …