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Combined 17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency with short stature: case study
Lizhen Ma1, Fengying Peng1, Lingying Yu1
1a Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism , Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University , Hangzhou , PR China.
Backgrounds:
17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency (17-OHD) is an uncommon form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Most patients are tall owing to delayed closure of epiphyses as a result of deficiency of sex hormones.
Methods:
We present a 17-OHD case with unusual short stature and reviewed related literature.
Results:
A 17-year-old female patient presented with primary amenorrhea, hypertension, hypokalemia and hypergonadotropic hypogonadism (HH). Sequencing of the CYP17A1 gene identified a homozygous c.985_987delTACinsAA in exon 6 that confirmed the diagnosis of 17-OHD. However, her height (148 cm, height standard deviation score [HSDS] -2.28) was unusually low compared with that of other 17-OHD patients. Levels of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1 were normal, and the GH provocation test excluded the possibility of GH deficiency. She underwent glucocorticoid and sex-hormone replacement therapy, reaching a final height of 152 cm (HSDS -1.59). These data suggest that tall stature is not a requisite characteristic of 17-OHD. Further studies are needed to clarify the effects of sex hormone on linear bone growth (LBG) in 17-OHD patients.
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