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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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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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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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Encyclopedia: Precocious puberty
Precocious puberty (Latin - pubertas praecox) is an unusually early onset of puberty, the process of sexual maturation that is triggered by the brain which usually begins in late childhood and results...
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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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Concern has been raised that children with central precocious puberty (CPP) are prone to the development of obesity. Here we report longitudinal height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) data from 96 girls and 14 boys with CPP before, during, and after GnRH agonist (GnRHa) administration.
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Context: GH deficiency (GHD) associated with central precocious puberty (CPP) has been widely reported in cases of arachnoid cyst, septo-optic dysplasia, brain tumors, or after cerebral radiation therapy. However, idiopathic GHD associated with CPP has been reported in only one isolated case.
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Depot forms of GnRH agonists are now the standard treatment for progressive central precocious puberty and aim at alleviating the clinical symptoms of early pubertal development, their psychological consequences and the effects on growth.
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To describe pelvic sonographic findings in girls as old as 7 years, to compare prepubertal girls with girls who had isolated thelarche or central precocious puberty, and to verify the accuracy of sonographic variables for distinguishing prepubertal girls from girls with central precocious puberty.
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