Original Article

Catch-up Growth in Prepubertal Children Treated for Juvenile Hypothyroidism and Growth Hormone Deficiency can be Modelled with a Monomolecular Function

• Jan M. Wit
• Theo C.J. Sas
• Michael B. Rank
• Paula van Dommelen

Different Growth Responses to Recombinant Human Growth Hormone in Three Siblings with Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency Type IA due to 6.7Kb Deletion of GH1 Gene

• Sayan Ghosh
• Partha Pratim Chakraborty
• Biswabandhu Bankura
• Animesh Maiti
• Rajkrishna Biswas
• Madhusudan Das

Vitamin D Deficiency in Children and Adolescents

• Nesibe Andıran
• Nurullah Çelik
• Halise Akça
• Güzide Doğan

Birth Size in Neonates with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase Deficiency

• Helmuth G. Dörr
• Theresa Penger
• Andrea Albrecht
• Michaela Marx
• Thomas M. K. Völkl

Growth and Adult Height during Human Growth Hormone Treatment in Chinese Children with Multiple Pituitary Hormone Deficiency Caused by Pituitary Stalk Interruption Syndrome: A Single Centre Study

• Fengxue Wang
• Jinyan Han
• Zengmin Wang
• Xiaohong Shang
• Guimei Li

Retinal Neural and Vascular Structure in Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency Children and Evaluation of Growth Hormone Treatment Effect

• Özge Yüce
• Nuriye Gökçen Yalçın
• Aysun Bideci
• Esra Döğer
• Hamdi Cihan Emeksiz
• Murat Hasanreisoğlu
• Zeynep Aktaş
• Orhun Çamurdan
• Peyami Cinaz

Vitamin D Deficiency and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in Children and Adolescents: a Critical Vitamin D Level for This Association?

• Olcay Evliyaoğlu
• Manolya Acar
• Bahar Özcabı
• Ethem Erginöz
• Feride Bucak
• Oya Ercan
• Mine Kucur

Vitamin D Deficiency in Children and Adolescents in Bağcılar, İstanbul

• Meltem Erol
• Özgül Yiğit
• Suat Hayri Küçük
• Özlem Bostan Gayret

Vitamin D Deficiency and Insufficiency According to the Current Criteria for Children: Vitamin D Status of Elementary School Children in Turkey

• F. Sinem Hocaoğlu-Emre
• Devrim Sarıbal
• Osman Oğuz

Novel Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone Receptor Gene Mutations in Turkish Children with Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency

• Ahmet Arman
• Bumin Nuri Dündar
• Ergun Çetinkaya
• Nilüfer Erzaim
• Atilla Büyükgebiz

A Rare Cause of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Clinical and Genetic Findings and Follow-up Characteristics of Six Patients with 17-Hydroxylase Deficiency Including Two Novel Mutations

• Aslı Derya Kardelen
• Güven Toksoy
• Firdevs Baş
• Zehra Yavaş Abalı
• Genco Gençay
• Şükran Poyrazoğlu
• Rüveyde Bundak
• Umut Altunoğlu
• Şahin Avcı
• Adam Najaflı
• Oya Uyguner
• Birsen Karaman
• Seher Başaran
• Feyza Darendeliler

Prospective Follow-up of Children with Idiopathic Growth Hormone Deficiency After Termination of Growth Hormone Treatment: Is There Really Need for Treatment at Transition to Adulthood?

• Emine Çamtosun
• Zeynep Şıklar
• Merih Berberoğlu

Vitamin D Status Across Age Groups in Turkey: Results of 108,742 Samples from a Single Laboratory

• Gül Yeşiltepe-Mutlu
• Ekin Deniz Aksu
• Abdullah Bereket
• Şükrü Hatun

Evaluation of IGF1/IGFBP3 Molar Ratio as an Effective Tool for Assessing the Safety of Growth Hormone Therapy in Small-for-gestational-age, Growth Hormone-Deficient and Prader-Willi Children

• Meriem Gaddas
• Laurence Périn
• Yves Le Bouc

The Results of 16 Years of Iodization: Assessment of Iodine Deficiency Among School-age Children in Antalya, Turkey

• Gamze Çelmeli
• Yusuf Çürek
• İkbal Özen Kücükçetin
• Zümrüt Arslan Gülten
• Sebahat Özdem
• Sema Akçurin
• İffet Bircan

Mutations Within the Transcription Factor PROP1 in a Cohort of Turkish Patients with Combined Pituitary Hormone Deficiency

• Fatma Derya Bulut
• Semine Özdemir Dilek
• Damla Kotan
• Eda Mengen
• Fatih Gürbüz
• Bilgin Yüksel

The Effect of Vitamin D Treatment on Serum Adiponectin Levels in Children with Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets

• Behzat Özkan
• Hakan Döneray
• Halil Keskin

Vitamin D Deficiency in Turkish Mothers and Their Neonates and in Women of Reproductive Age

• Ayça Törel Ergür
• Merih Berberoğlu
• Begüm Atasay
• Zeynep Şıklar
• Pelin Bilir
• Saadet Arsan
• Feride Söylemez
• Gönül Öcal

Neonatal Screening for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in Turkey: Outcomes of Extended Pilot Study in 241,083 Infants

• Tülay Güran
• Başak Tezel
• Meltem Çakır
• Ayşehan Akıncı
• Zerrin Orbak
• Mehmet Keskin
• Beray Selver Eklioğlu
• Alev Ozon
• Mehmet Nuri Özbek
• Gülay Karagüzel
• Nihal Hatipoğlu
• Fatih Gürbüz
• Filiz Mine Çizmecioğlu
• Cengiz Kara
• Enver Şimşek
• Firdevs Baş
• Murat Aydın
• Feyza Darendeliler

Evaluation of the Final Adult Height and Its Determinants in Patients with Growth Hormone Deficiency: A Single-centre Experience from the South-Eastern Region of Turkey

• Meliha Demiral
• Edip Unal
• Birsen Baysal
• Rıza Taner Baran
• Hüseyin Demirbilek
• Mehmet Nuri Özbek

The Effect of Recombinant Growth Hormone Treatment in Children with Idiopathic Short Stature and Low Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Levels

• Zeynep Şıklar
• Pınar Kocaay
• Emine Çamtosun
• Mehmet İsakoca
• Bülent Hacıhamdioğlu
• Şenay Savaş Erdeve
• Merih Berberoğlu

Original Article

Evaluation of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine (ADMA) Levels in Children with Growth Hormone Deficiency

• Aşan Önder
• Zehra Aycan
• Cemile Koca
• Merve Ergin
• Semra Çetinkaya
• Sebahat Yılmaz Ağladıoğlu
• Havva Nur Peltek Kendirci
• Veysel Nijat Baş

Vitamin D Deficiency in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes

• Ajda Mutlu
• Gül Yeşiltepe Mutlu
• Elif Özsu
• Filiz Mine Çizmecioğlu
• Şükrü Hatun

Original Research

Current Practice in Diagnosis and Treatment of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Childhood: A Survey from Turkey

• Şükran Poyrazoğlu
• Teoman Akçay
• İlknur Arslanoğlu
• Mehmet Emre Atabek
• Zeynep Atay
• Merih Berberoğlu
• Abdullah Bereket
• Aysun Bideci
• İffet Bircan
• Ece Böber
• Şule Can
• Yaşar Cesur
• Şükran Darcan
• Korcan Demir
• Bumin Dündar
• Betül Ersoy
• İhsan Esen
• Ayla Güven
• Cengiz Kara
• Mehmet Keskin
• Selim Kurtoğlu
• Nihal Memioğlu
• Mehmet Nuri Özbek
• Tolga Özgen
• Erkan Sarı
• Zeynep Şıklar
• Enver Şimşek
• Serap Turan
• Ediz Yeşilkaya
• Bilgin Yüksel
• Feyza Darendeliler

Impact of Vitamin D Status on Cardiometabolic Complications among Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

• Adnan Al Shaikh
• Abdullah M. Al Zahrani

Renal Anomalies Associated with Ectopic Neurohypophysis

• Samim Özen
• Damla Gökşen Şişmek
• Asan Önder
• Şükran Darcan

Evaluation of Iodine Deficiency in Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

• Saliha Kanık Yüksek
• Zehra Aycan
• Özgür Öner

Serum IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 Levels in Healthy Children Between 0 and 6 Years of Age

• Bilgin Yüksel
• M. Nuri Özbek
• Neslihan Önenli Mungan
• Feyza Darendeliler
• Bahar Budan
• Aysun Bideci
• Ergün Çetinkaya
• Merih Berberoğlu
• Olcay Evliyaoğlu
• Ediz Yeşilkaya
• İlknur Arslanoğlu
• Şükran Darcan
• Ruveyda Bundak
• Olcay Ercan

Transient Congenital Hypothyroidism in Turkey: An Analysis on Frequency and Natural Course

• Cengiz Kara
• Figen Günindi
• Gülay Can Yılmaz
• Murat Aydın

Neonatal Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Screening as a Monitoring Tool for Iodine Deficiency in Turkey

• Nilgün Çaylan
• Başak Tezel
• Sema Özbaş
• Nuran Şahin
• Şirin Aydın
• Deniz Acıcan
• Bekir Keskinkılıç

Treatment of Pre-pubertal Patients with Growth Hormone Deficiency: Patterns in Growth Hormone Dosage and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I Z-scores

• Megan Oberle
• Adda Grimberg
• Vaneeta Bamba

Homozygous Ala65Pro Mutation with V89L Polymorphism in SRD5A2 Deficiency

• Erdal Eren
• Tuba Edgünlü
• Emre Asut
• Sevim Karakaş Çelik

Vitamin D Deficiency in Pediatric Fracture Patients: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Vitamin D Supplementation

• Erwin A. Gorter
• Wilma Oostdijk
• Abraham Felius
• Pieta Krijnen
• Inger B. Schipper

Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency and Calcium Homeostasis in Saudi Children

• Adnan M. Al Shaikh
• Bahaa Abaalkhail
• Ashraf Soliman
• Ibrahim Kaddam
• Khalid Aseri
• Yousef Al Saleh
• Ali Al Qarni
• Ahmed Al Shuaibi
• Waleed Al Tamimi
• Abdel Moniem Mukhtar

Review

Genetics of Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency

• Primus E. Mullis

Prader-Willi Syndrome and Growth Hormone Deficiency

• Zehra Aycan
• Veysel Nijat Baş

Pitfalls with Vitamin D Research in Musculoskeletal Disorders and Recommendations on How to Avoid Them

• Gary M. Kiebzak
• Kevin M. Neal
• Pooya Hosseinzadeh
• Robert C. Olney
• Michael A. Levine

Use of Vitamin D in Children and Adults: Frequently Asked Questions

• Gül Yeşiltepe Mutlu
• Şükrü Hatun

Achieving Optimal Short- and Long-term Responses to Paediatric Growth Hormone Therapy

• Jan M. Wit
• Asma Deeb
• Bassam Bin-Abbas
• Angham Al Mutair
• Ekaterina Koledova
• Martin O. Savage

Case Reports

Familial Glucocorticoid Deficiency Type 2: A Case Report

• Leyla Akın
• Selim Kurtoğlu
• Mustafa Kendirici
• Mustafa Ali Akın

Two Siblings with Isolated GH Deficiency Due to Loss-of-Function Mutation in the GHRHR Gene: Successful Treatment with Growth Hormone Despite Late Admission and Severe Growth Retardation

• Zeynep Şıklar
• Merih Berberoğlu
• Maria Legendre
• Serge Amselem
• Olcay Evliyaoğlu
• Bülent Hacıhamdioğlu
• Şenay Savaş Erdeve
• Gönül Öçal

Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets Mimicking Pseudohypoparathyroidism

• Leyla Akın
• Selim Kurtoğlu
• Aysel Yıldız
• Mustafa Ali Akın
• Mustafa Kendirici

Melnick-Needles Syndrome Associated with Growth Hormone Deficiency: A Case Report

• Leyla Akın
• Erdal Adal
• Mustafa Ali Akın
• Selim Kurtoğlu