Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin 1994;32:53-55; doi:10.1136/dtb.1994.32753
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Unlicensed uses for growth hormone

Relevant BNF section: 6.5.1

Synthetic human growth hormone (GH) is licensed for the treatment of short stature in GH-deficient children and girls with Turner syndrome (gonadal dysgenesis).1 GH is now also being used to treat children with growth failure due to other causes, as replacement therapy in GH-deficient adults and as an anabolic drug in certain groups of non-GH-deficient adults. This article discusses these unlicensed uses.






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