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Article: Study of growth hormone treatment emphasizes prevention of adrenal crises.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 5, 2004
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2004 MAY 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The largest study of its kind, designed to track the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people who received human growth hormone from cadavers, has found that the vast majority of those who received the hormone did not contract the fatal condition. However, some recipients (26 out of approximately 7700) did develop the disease.
A larger number (59) died from adrenal crisis, a sometimes-fatal complication that can be prevented if it is recognized and treated promptly.
Adrenal crisis does not affect all patients who require growth hormone, but may occur in a subgroup of patients whose pituitary gland ...