title: Predicting response to growth hormone treatment.
abstract: Despite extensive experience over the past 25 y in managing growth failure with growth hormone (rhGH), predicting treatment efficacy in individual children remains a challenge. In this paper, the authors present the methods that are currently available to clinicians for predicting the growth response, and other more sophisticated techniques which have the potential to pave the way for individualised therapy in the future.
authors: Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK. lp@manchester.ac.uk
authors: Leena
authors: L
authors: Patel
authors: Peter E
authors: PE
authors: Clayton
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002648:Child; D005544:Forecasting; D019382:Human Growth Hormone / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D010597:Pharmacogenetics; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D019382:Human Growth Hormone