Precocious Puberty or Central Precocious Puberty can be very confusing and truly unexpected. After all, who knew children could go into puberty too early? There are treatments for this condition. It is not something which is healthy for children for many reasons.
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Precocious puberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Precocious puberty (Latin: ) is an unusually early onset of puberty, the process of sexual maturation triggered by the brain or exogenous chemicals, which usually begins in late childhood and results...
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If the history, physical examination, and laboratory data suggest that a child exhibits early and sustained evidence of pubertal maturation, the clinician must differentiate central precocious puberty (CPP) from precocious pseudopuberty.
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Central precocious puberty; There's usually no identifiable cause for this type of precocious puberty. ... In central precocious puberty, the entire HPG axis starts too soon. Although they begin earlier than they should, the pattern and timing of the steps in the process are otherwise normal.
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GnRH AGONISTS INHIBIT the pituitary-gonadal axis and their use changed the outcome of central precocious puberty (CPP) (1). These drugs permanently stimulate the gonadotroph and densensitize the pituitary gland to hypothalamic GnRH. Therefore, constant exposure to the drug is one of the critical requirements for...
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In the present study, we sought to determine the mode of inheritance of familial precocious puberty (FPP) in families with central precocious puberty and to identify specific clinical or laboratory features that distinguish familial from sporadic cases.
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Early puberty is usually thought of as being either central precocious puberty, which can be from a tumor (more commonly in boys) of the central nervous system, including hypothalamic hamartomas, infections, head trauma, hydrocephalus, or hypothyroidism, or peripheral precocious puberty, usually secondary to...
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The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology ... Diabetes & Endocrinology...
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16191282
OBJECTIVE: Depot GnRH agonists are commonly used in the treatment of central precocious puberty (CPP). ... OBJECTIVE: Depot GnRH agonists are commonly used in the treatment of central precocious puberty (CPP). The triptorelin 11.25 mg 3-month depot, currently used in adult indications, had not previously been evaluated in...
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16382000
"We've run a gamut of emotions, from frustration just to get a doctor to hear us to restlessness over yet again being told wait and see, to incredible guilt on my part because I felt it was my genes causing this, therefore my fault." (Heredity does play a part in precocious puberty, but it is not the only part.)
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