Symptomatic non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus during therapy with recombinant human growth hormone

J Pediatr. 1993 Oct;123(4):590-2. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(05)80959-x.

Abstract

In a 12-year-old girl, hyperglycemia and an elevated glycohemoglobin concentration developed after therapy with growth hormone for familial short stature. Both clinical and biochemical abnormalities disappeared after therapy was discontinued. The insulin response to an oral glucose tolerance test was abnormal 3 months after discontinuation of growth hormone; 18 months later, it remained delayed but was normal quantitatively.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Body Height
  • Child
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / chemically induced*
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / diagnosis
  • Female
  • Glucose Tolerance Test
  • Growth Disorders / drug therapy*
  • Growth Disorders / genetics
  • Growth Hormone / adverse effects*
  • Growth Hormone / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Recombinant Proteins / adverse effects
  • Recombinant Proteins / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Growth Hormone