This Review describes the many clinical, endocrine and genetic abnormalities that cause growth hormone (GH) insensitivity disorders, listing all the known GH-receptor mutations and describing the current therapy with insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and a novel therapy using complexes of IGF1 and IGF-binding protein 3.
- Martin O Savage
- Kenneth M Attie
- Cecilia Camacho-Hübner