title: [Programme review of somatropin deficit in pediatrics at the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop a program review of somatropin deficit, applied in pediatrics at the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, using two groups of patients: the ones diagnosed with deficiency of this hormone, and those born small for gestational age, with the intention of evaluating its effectiveness in the first year of treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Attaining a retrospective study of the cohort of patients treated with growth hormone under the above diagnoses, with cross-sectional and observational methodology, to which we applied a statistical analysis with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences®.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After the beginning of the treatment, the growth rate had increased and the bone age approximated to the chronologic age. In the two treated groups in the first year of treatment were the female patients aged between 0 to 12 years with a deficit of growth hormone who responded better to therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We observed that the treatment instituted appeared highly effective in both groups of patients, allowing a favorable increase in height.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lavaredas
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de la Puerta
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Álvarez del Vayo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D019382:Human Growth Hormone / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D019382:Human Growth Hormone