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ey0018.4-2 | Important for clinical practice | ESPEYB18

4.2. Clinical characteristics of short-stature patients with an NPR2 mutation and the therapeutic response to rhGH

Ke X , Liang H , Miao H , Yang H , Wang L , Gong F , Pan H , Zhu H

Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021;106(2):431–441. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa842. PMID: 33205215This study aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of 6 patients with NPR2 gene mutations and the response to rhGH treatment in 2 of them.The natriuretic peptide receptor 2 gene (NPR2) is a paracrine factor involved in the regulation of cell proliferati...

ey0018.9-11 | Cancer treatment, growth and growth hormone therapy | ESPEYB18

9.11. Height after photon craniospinal irradiation in pediatric patients treated for central nervous system embryonal tumors

M Mizumoto , Y Oshiro , H Pan , F Wang , SC Kaste , A Gajjar , W Chemaitilly , TE. thomas.merchant@stjude.org Merchant

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2020; 67: e28617. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32715632/This retrospective single-centre study aimed to develop a final height prediction model based on data from 212 long-term survivors (aged 5-20.4 years) of childhood central nervous system (CNS) tumors who received craniospinal irradiation (CSI) and with a median follow up of 10.2 years. Mean fin...