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ArticleSudanese journal of paediatrics2017

Precocious puberty: An experience from a major teaching hospital in Central Saudi Arabia.

Huda A Osman, Nasir A M Al-Jurayyan, Amir M I Babiker, Hessah M N Al-Otaibi, Reem D H AlKhalifah, Sharifah D A Al Issa, Sarar Mohamed

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Article in Sudanese journal of paediatrics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  5. Study on the Mechanism of Sarsasapogenin in Treating Precocious Puberty by Regulating the HPG Axis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020
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Huda A OsmanDepartment of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, (KSUMC), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Nasir A M Al-JurayyanDepartment of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, (KSUMC), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Amir M I BabikerDepartment of Pediatrics, King Abdullah Specialized Children's Hospital and King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hessah M N Al-OtaibiDepartment of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, (KSUMC), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Reem D H AlKhalifahDepartment of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, (KSUMC), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sharifah D A Al IssaDepartment of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, (KSUMC), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sarar MohamedDepartment of Pediatrics, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Abstract

Precocious puberty is a developmental process that gives rise to secondary sexual characteristics before the age of 8 years in girls and 9 years in boys. In general, precocious puberty can be classified as central or peripheral. This is a retrospective hospital-based study was conducted at King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during the period January 1990 and December 2016. Data were abstracted from the medical records of patients diagnosed with precocious puberty, with special emphasis on age, sex, clinical characteristics, and relevant hormonal assay. A total of 62 patients were diagnosed with Precocious Puberty (PP); 43 had Central Precocious Puberty (CPP) while 19 had peripheral precocious puberty (PPP). The majority of girls with CPP (68%) had idiopathic PP, while pathological causes were found in (50%) of boys. The commonest cause of PPP was congenital adrenal hyperplasia (42%) and chronic hypothyroidism (26%). In conclusion, this study showed that precocious Puberty is a common endocrine problem in our center. The etiology of CPP was idiopathic in the majority of girls while it was caused by CNS pathology in most of the boys in this cohort. Peripheral precocious puberty is not that rare and mainly caused by congenital adrenal hyperplasia or hypothyroidism.

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Gonadotropin-DependentGonadotropin-IndependentPrecocious PubertySaudi Arabia

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PMCPMC5621853

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