[Possibilities to increase the efficacy of growth hormone therapy in Turner syndrome]

The authors gave an account of the results of the first two years treatment of Turner's syndrome with growth hormone. They used the international reference standards to evaluate the treatment aimed at promoting the growth of girls having Turner's syndrome. The applied the projected final height method to predict height. Their results proved that their treatment which improved growth had favourably accelerated height velocity and increased the projected final height, which they hoped to lead to adult final height. They dealt with the trend of costs/benefit rate of treatment which improved the growth in children with Turner syndrome and on its basis they emphasized the importance of individual treatment. The continuous control of growth hormone treatment not only purported to the improvement of the efficiency of the therapy but also makes possible to avoid raising exaggerated expectations in the parents.