Exam 2 - Growth & Endocrine Flashcards
Normal growth in childhood is _______
5-6.5cm/year
Adult height is _______
Genetically pre-determined.
Breasts (thelarche) -> pubic hair (pubarche usually w/in 1 year of thelarche) -> menarche (begins at stage 4 breast but usually when Mom started hers)
Genetic conditions with growth alterations have specific growth charts.
How to calculate a target or mid-parental height.
Boys: (mom’s height + dad’s height + 13)/2 cm
Girls: (mom’s height + dad’s height -13)/2 cm
If the childs’ growth pattern curve at 20 is within 5cm of mid-parental height = appropriate for family.
Evaluate for abnormal growth patient who are below _____ and above______
3rd and 97th percentile.
Bone age is abnormal if: _____
Advanced or delayed by more than 2 SDs
Basic screening lab test to evaluate abnormal growth in children.
CBC w diff (anemia, infection)
BMP (renal disease, electrolyte abnormalities, DI)
LFT (metabolic or infectious disorders with liver dysfxn)
UA and urine pH (renal tubular acidosis)
ESR (chronic inflammation)
Normal reasons for short stature
Familial
Constitutional growth delay
Pathologic reasons for short stature
Nutritional
Endocrine
Chromosomal
IUGR
Skeletal dysplasia
Chronic illness
Psychosocial
How do you investigate bone age?
AP view of LEFT wrist/hand and look at how fused the growth plates are. This calculates the amount of remaining growth the patient has.
If bone age is < chronological age, then they have ________ time to grow. Ex?
MORE.
Girl age 9 with bone age 8. She might be short now but she has more time to grow.
Delayed bone age with _____ or _______
GH deficiency
Hypothyroidism,
Chronic illness, malnutrition.
Bone age can be advanced with ______
Prolonged elevation of sex steroid levels
Percocious puberty
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
GNRH agonists
Exogenous sex steroids
Significant: sotos syndrome, beckwith-wiedemann syndrome, Marshall-smith syndrome
Genetic (familial) short stature
Falls off growth chart around 8-19 months then resumes normal velocity
Normal PE
Growth rate >4cm/yr
Bone age is equal to chronological age.
No pubertal delay
No deceleration of weight
Constitutional delay: bone age is ______ and _______ to height age.
Delayed
Approximately equal
Genetic syndromes that can lead to tall stature
Kleinfelter
Marfan
Beckwith-wiedemann
Sotos
Weaver
What is length vs stature/height?
Length - laying down (<2yo)
Stature/height - standing up (>2yo)
Girls pubertal delay?
Boys?
Girls no breast development by 13 years OR no menarche by 3 years after breast development OR no menarche by 16
Boys no testicular enlargement by 14.
Is disconcordant pubertal delay most likely pathologic?
Yes. Some things are growing the way they’re supposed to and others are not.
Learn tanner stages
TQ What is the correct sequence of events in puberty in boys
Growth of testicles
Pubic hair appears
Growth of penis scrotum
Axillary hair
First ejaculations
Growth spurt
Facial hair
Adult height.
TQ What is the correct sequence of events in puberty in girls
Breast bud appearance
Pubic hair
Growth spurt
Axillary hair
Pubic hair matures
Breasts mature
Menarche
Adult height
Review slide 49 causes of delayed puberty
In precocious puberty, bone age is _______
Advanced.
Weed and weight lifting supplements can cause Gynecomastia.
In GH deficiency, growth plates _____
Don’t close or take longer to close. Bone age will be younger so they have much more growth potential
Hypothyroid and bone age - they have more time.
Hyperthyroidism - bone age - they grow tall and skinny but their plates close sooner so they stop growing faster.
Hypothyroidism is diagnosed with ______ TSH and ______ T4
Increased
Low
Look in Harriet lane for synthroid dosing in pediatrics!
Most common manifestation in peds hypothyroid is ::
Growth failure.