Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2026) | Viewed by 1014
Special Issue Editors
Interests: endocrinology; children; growth hormone deficiency; puberty; thyroid diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) in childhood represents a significant challenge for clinicians and researchers for both diagnosis and treatment. With this email, I am inviting the scientific community and you to deepen our knowledge on GHD by exploring its underlying mechanisms, peculiar clinical pictures, and biomarkers that may define specific subtypes for a special issue of Children, entitled “Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment”.
All contributions addressing improved diagnostic strategies, such as standardized stimulation tests, IGF-1–based markers, and neuroimaging approaches, are particularly welcome.
A special emphasis will be placed on studies investigating individualized and evidence-based approaches to recombinant human growth hormone therapy, including predictors of treatment response, optimal dosing of therapy, and long-term outcomes.
Furthermore, this issue seeks innovative perspectives on personalized medicine in pediatric endocrinology, aiming to optimize growth, body composition, and metabolic health in children with GHD, while enhancing their overall quality of life.
Dr. Clelia Cipolla
Prof. Dr. Donato Rigante
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- growth hormone deficiency
- recombinant human growth hormone
- diagnosis and biomarkers of growth hormone deficiency
- predictors of treatment response to human growth hormone
- personalized medicine
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