Growth Response in Short Children Suffering From a Disease With Growth Retardation and Treated With Somatropin

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School120 enrolled

Overview

Growth hormone therapy will improve the height of short statured children with pathological conditions that lead to growth retardation. Growth hormone therapy will show an increase in height velocity \>1 SD compared to pretreatment height velocity. and the therapy will be safe.

Growth hormone (GH, Somatropin, e.g. Genotropin®) is approved in the treatment of children in specific indications. However, besides the benefit in approved indications, a benefit can also be achieved in other pathological conditions that lead to growth retardation. However, because of their relative low frequency and the long duration of GH studies in children, few data or only case reports on GH treatment are available in these conditions. Nevertheless, published data have suggested a benefit of GH treatment in children suffering from some of those diseases and pediatric endocrinologists sometimes request GH treatment for those children to improve growth rate. This protocol is designed to allow such children with severe growth retardation to be treated with GH and will allow those children to be carefully followed-up and finally evaluated at the end of the GH treatment period.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

120

Conditions

Idiopathic Short Stature

Interventions

somatropin (Genotropin® treatment)DRUG

0,035 mg /kg bodyweight of Somatropin per day given by subcutaneous injections through an injection device (GenotropinPEN)

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 4 YearsMax age: 10 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Severe growth retardation (\< -2,5 height SDS and annual growth velocity (HV SDS) \< 0 SD according to Reinken (1992) and parental adjusted target height \< -1 SD according to Tanner (1986) * Chronological age \> 4 and \< 10 years, prepubertal children; for girls: Tanner breast stage B = 1, for boys: testis volume ≤ 3 ml * Any disease which is NOT part of the registered indications for GH treatment in Germany * Written informed consent from both parents and from the patients if she/he is able to receive and understand the information * GH treatment requested by an expert in pediatric endocrinology Exclusion Criteria: * Participation in any other clinical study * Unable to follow the and/or comprehend the protocol ( e.g. severe mental retardation) * Previous history of intolerance or hypersensitivity to the study drug * History of malignancy * Chromosomal anomalies with increased risk for malignancy

Locations (13)

Kinderklinik, Universitätsklinikum der RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstraße 30

Aachen, Germany

Klinik u. Poliklinik für Kinder und Jugendliche, Med. Einrichtungen der Universität Köln, Joseph-Stelzmann-Strasse 9

Cologne, Germany

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

To show an improvement of height, change in height (SDS) under GH treatment one year after visit 2 (start of GH therapy).

Time frame: one and two years of observation

Secondary Outcomes

To show an increase in height velocity >1 SD compared to pretreatment height velocity, to confirm good clinical and biological safety of GH treatment in these patients (e.g. adverse events, serum IGF-I, fasting blood glucose and insulin)

Time frame: one and two years of observation period

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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