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How to Monitor a Child on Growth Hormone Treatment
For most kids who are just sort of shorter and have been falling off in height, we don't find anything on MRI. Now part of that is that we just over-diagnosed growth hormone deficiency. So many kids, if you retest them once they're done growing, they're not growth hormone deficient. And it's probably not that they had a transient growth hormones deficiency. It's just that our testing is really problematic.