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The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 41 Issue 3-4
published_at 1994-12

A Case of Growth Failure Following Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully Treated by Replacement with Recombinant Growth Hormone

A Case of Growth Failure Following Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully Treated by Replacement with Recombinant Growth Hormone
Kamei Shinji
Shironohara Kenji
Oeda Eiichi
Matsumura Shigeichi
Kawasaki Kozo
Kondo Hozumi
Kaneko Toshio
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We report a case of 13-year-old boy with grouwh failure following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation which was performed at the age of 6 for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The patient had been preconditioned with total body irradiation,. Growth failure was observed in height and body weight, and growth hormone (GH) deficiency was confirmed by the endocrinological studies. The patient was successfully treated by replacement therapy with recombinant GH without recurrence of leukemia, the duration of administration being short and only for 1 year and 6 months.
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