Meeting abstract
https://doi.org/10.26800/LV-142-supp5-18
Kearns-Sayre syndrome – rare cause of growth hormone deficiency
Dora Bulić
; University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Duje Braovac
; Department of Pediatrics, Division for Endocrinology and Diabetes, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Maja Vinković
; Department of Pediatrics, Division for Endocrinology and Diabetes, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Katja Dumić Kubat
; Department of Pediatrics, Division for Endocrinology and Diabetes, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Kearns – Sayre syndrome (KSS) is a rare mitochondriopathy. Among chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, pigmentary retinal degeneration and ataxia that are present in most patients before age of 20, majority of patients also have various endocrine deficiencies.
Keywords
endocrinopathy; growth hormone deficiency; Kearns-Sayre syndrome; ophthalmoplegia
Hrčak ID:
251661
URI
Publication date:
27.1.2021.
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