Recorded: EIP 2019 ● Language: English ● Duration: 34 minutes ● Topic: Pediatric Endocrinolgy

     
 

Speaker: PETER BANG, Professor of Pediatrics and Academic Head of Division of Pediatrics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden

  
     
  Learning Objectives: (1) To understand that the expected height response to rhGH or rhIGF-1 treatment varies largely (2) To understand when and how to respond to a suboptimal height response to rhGH or rhIGF-I treatment (3) To understand that proper information to the patient/parents prior to treatment is essential to calibrate expectations and facilitate appropriate actions depending on response to treatment/side-effects