Wise P H, Burnet R B, Geary T D, Berriman H
Arch Dis Child. 1975 Mar;50(3):210-4. doi: 10.1136/adc.50.3.210.
In a consecutive group of 25 children with defective growth being evaluated for growth hormone deficiency, EEG-monitored slow-wave sleep provided discriminatory serum growth hormone responses equivalent to those obtained by arginine and insulin-hypoglycaemia provocation. Exercise was less effective but was able to provide a useful screening test. In 2 subjects with abnormal physiological but normal pharmacological serum growth hormone responses, therapeutic administration of growth hormone in one resulted in a significant growth increment, whereas in the other, advanced epiphyseal maturity precluded adequate evaluation. A normal growth hormone response to a pharmacological stimulus does not exclude a therapeutic response to human growth hormone.
在一组连续的25名生长发育不良且正在接受生长激素缺乏评估的儿童中,脑电图监测的慢波睡眠所提供的血清生长激素反应具有鉴别意义,等同于精氨酸和胰岛素低血糖激发试验所获得的反应。运动效果较差,但可提供一项有用的筛查试验。在2名生理反应异常但药物刺激后血清生长激素反应正常的受试者中,其中1名接受生长激素治疗后生长显著增加,而另1名因骨骺成熟提前而无法进行充分评估。对药物刺激的生长激素反应正常并不能排除对人生长激素的治疗反应。