Description:The present volume combines for the first time the experiences of a group of investigators of international reputation on the benefits and limitations of the use of human growth hormone (hGH) treatment in adult patients with GH deficiency since childhood, in those who acquired this deficiency in adulthood, or in aged people who have physiologically low GH levels. Growth hormone proves to be an important metabolic hormone, also beyond childhood, but adults seem to need less.This book also contains papers on the psychological, oncological and economical aspects of growth hormone therapy. This book should be of great interest to endocrinologists, diabetologists, internists, and to psychologists and oncologists.The editors are well-known experts in the field of growth hormone and have published together two previous volumes, "Evaluations of GH Secretion - Physiology and clinical Application" and "Clinical Use of Growth Hormone - Present and Future Aspects", published as volumes 12 (1983) and 16 (1987) respectively in the series Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, S. Karger, Basel-New York-Sydney.Professor Zvi Laron is the Irene and Nicholas Marsh Professor of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Tel Aviv University and Director of the Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrine Research Unit, Children's Medical Center of Israel.Professor Otfrid Butenandt is Chief Endocrinologist at the Dr. von Haunerschen Children's Hospital, Munich University, Germany.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy in Adults: Pros and Cons. To get started finding Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy in Adults: Pros and Cons, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy in Adults: Pros and Cons
Description: The present volume combines for the first time the experiences of a group of investigators of international reputation on the benefits and limitations of the use of human growth hormone (hGH) treatment in adult patients with GH deficiency since childhood, in those who acquired this deficiency in adulthood, or in aged people who have physiologically low GH levels. Growth hormone proves to be an important metabolic hormone, also beyond childhood, but adults seem to need less.This book also contains papers on the psychological, oncological and economical aspects of growth hormone therapy. This book should be of great interest to endocrinologists, diabetologists, internists, and to psychologists and oncologists.The editors are well-known experts in the field of growth hormone and have published together two previous volumes, "Evaluations of GH Secretion - Physiology and clinical Application" and "Clinical Use of Growth Hormone - Present and Future Aspects", published as volumes 12 (1983) and 16 (1987) respectively in the series Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, S. Karger, Basel-New York-Sydney.Professor Zvi Laron is the Irene and Nicholas Marsh Professor of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Tel Aviv University and Director of the Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrine Research Unit, Children's Medical Center of Israel.Professor Otfrid Butenandt is Chief Endocrinologist at the Dr. von Haunerschen Children's Hospital, Munich University, Germany.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy in Adults: Pros and Cons. To get started finding Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy in Adults: Pros and Cons, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.