ArticlePediatric endocrinology reviews : PER2018
Long-Acting Growth Hormone Preparations in the Treatment of Children.
Article in Pediatric endocrinology reviews : PER, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Weekly long-acting growth hormone versus daily growth hormone therapy on quality of life, efficacy, and safety in children with short stature: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Pooled it
- The pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties and short-term outcome of a novel once-weekly PEGylated recombinant human growth hormone for children with growth hormone deficiency.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Trial
- Comparison of efficacy and safety between long-acting growth hormone and short-acting growth hormone in isolated growth hormone deficiency: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 16 randomized controlled trials involving 2,435 pediatric patients.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Once-Weekly Pegylated Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Versus Daily Growth Hormone Therapy in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- PEGylated therapeutics in the clinic.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2024Review
- Growth hormone receptor agonists and antagonists: From protein expression and purification to long-acting formulations.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2023Review
- Overcoming barriers to patient adherence: the case for developing innovative drug delivery systems.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2023Review
- Interventions Designed to Improve Adherence to Growth Hormone Treatment for Pediatric Patients and Their Families: A Narrative Review.Pharmaceutics · 2022Review
- Short-term efficacy and safety of a lower dose of polyethylene glycol recombinant human growth hormone in children with growth hormone deficiency: A randomized, dose-comparison study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Persistence with daily growth hormone among children and adolescents with growth hormone deficiency in the UK.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Dilemmas of growth hormone treatment for GH deficiency and idiopathic short stature: defining, distinguishing, and deciding.Minerva pediatrica · 2020Review
- Management of Hypopituitarism.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Review
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Abstract
Human growth hormone (hGH), which had been in use since 1958, was supplanted by recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) in 1985 for those with growth hormone deficiency (GHD). Adherence to daily subcutaneous growth hormone is challenging for patients. Thus, several companies have pursued the creation of long acting rhGH. These agents can be divided broadly into depot formulations, PEGylated formulations, pro-drug formulations, non-covalent albumin binding GH and GH fusion proteins. Nutropin Depot is the only long acting rhGH ever approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and it was removed from the market in 2004. Of the approximately seventeen candidate drugs, only a handful remain under active clinical investigation or are commercially available.
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