... used methods such as Bayley-Pinneau (BP) tend to overestimate adult height in CDGP. Objective: We aimed to develop a specific adult height prediction model for teenage boys with retarded bone ages >1 year. Methods: Based on the adult heights of 68 males (median age 22.5 years) a new height...

...Marina Unrath; Hans Henrik Thodberg; Roland Schweizer; Michael B. Ranke; Gerhard Binder; David D. Martin Aim: A new method (BX AHP) for adult height prediction (AHP), based on automated bone age (BoneXpert®, here called autBA) assessment, has been developed and validated. The aim of this study...

... of growth, in interpreting hormone tests during puberty, and in the diagnosis of precocious puberty and hyperandrogenism. On the other hand, it is important to recognize that overemphasizing bone age evaluation can be misleading if not used in the proper settings. Adult height prediction is based...

... of Pediatrics, Universities of Leuven. Antwerp, Liege, and Department of Endocrinology. University of Ghent, Belgium A Valuable Improvement of Adult Height Prediction Methods in Short Normal Children Key Words Adult height prediction Normal short stature Growth hormone therapy A b s tra ct O bjectives...

...Yehuda Limony; Zvi Zadik; Amos K. Pic; Esther Leiberman Several methods for adult height prediction are currently in use. All are subject to a wide range of error which is thought to result, at least in part, from the use of bone age estimation. Following the suggestion made by Karlberg to predict...

... Syndrome Key Words Adult height prediction Bone age Growth hormone Height velocity Turner syndrome Abstract The aims of this national multicentre study in Finland were to evaluate whether the height velocity of patients with Turner syndrome would increase with the conventional human growth hormone (GH...

.... Bromocriptine Constitutionally tall adolescents Adult height prediction Hormone Res. 22: 107-109 (1985) Bromocriptine Treatment in Tall Adolescents: Two Years of Clinical Experience D. Evain Brion, D. Murrieta, J.C. Job Endocrine Pediatric Unit. Hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Université René-Descartes...

... with congenital renal diseases and stressed the larger error of prediction of the TW3 vs. TW2 method [ 12 ]. Unfortunately, according to our preliminary data, there is no fully satisfactory method for height prediction. TW3 does not represent a real progress. With TW2, adult height prediction is affected...