Optimal Therapy of Growth Hormone Deficiency in the Child and Adolescent physiological pattern of GH secretion; • development of alternative delivery systems; and • improvement of the transition process from paediatric to adult care.
Theoretically, future developments in treatment of the child with GHD might include therapies that are currently difficult to imagine, such as gene therapy to re-establish GH secretion, placental transplantation to supply chorionic somatomammotropin (in place of
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