Seon-Young You, Ki-Joong Kim, Jeh-Hoon Shin, Jin-Nyoung Park, Hee-Jeong Ahn, Yong-Joo Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1998;41(1):90-98. Published online January 15, 1998
Purpose : To assess whether pretreatment IGF-I SDS and pretreatmental bone age are useful
indicators in the response of rhGH therapy in children with GH deficiency(GHD), the relationship
between pretreatment IGF-I SDS, delay in bone age and the growth response during the first year
of rhGH treatment was analyzed.
Methods : This study included 12 children with GHD. We measured IGF-I levels by RIA...