Endocrine Disorders in Thalassemia

Plenary Lectures.- Spontaneous Growth Hormone (GH) Secretion and Results of Therapy with GH in Thalassemic Patients.- Plasma Growth Hormone-Binding Protein and Liver Receptor in Thalassemic Patients.- Short-term Follow-up Study of Thyroid Function in Polytransfused Thalassemic Patients.- Spermatogenesis in Patients with ?-Thalassaemia major and intermedia.- Long-term Follow-up of Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis in Thalassaemic Patients with Secondary Amenorrhoea.- Abnormal Bone Metabolism in Thalassemia.- Bone Mineral Content by Single- and Dual-Photon Absorptiometry in Thalassemic Patients.- Osteopenia in Thalassemic Patients with Primary and Secondary Amenorrhea.- Imaging, Ultrastructural Aspects, and Trace Elements in the Thalassemic Condrodystrophy.- Glucose Intolerance and Diabetes in Thalassaemia major.- Pancreatic beta-Cell Function Before and After Bone Marrow Transplantation for Thalassemia.- A Multicenter Study on Endocrine Disorders in Thalassemia-Introduction.- Endocrine Pathology in Thalassemia.- Endocrine Complications in Cyprian Thalassemic Patients.- Thalassemia and Endocrinopathies: A Multicenter Study of 3092 Patients.- Communications.- Growth in Homozygous ?-Thalassemic Patients.- Relationship Between GH Response to Stimuli, Levels of IGF-1, and Final Height.- Growth Hormone Secretion in Thalassemic Patients.- Binding of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 to Erythrocytes in Children with Thalassemia.- Evaluation of Thyroid Function in Thalassemic Patients Undergoing Long-term Blood Transfusion and Iron-Chelation Therapy.- Pituitary-Thyroid Function in Children with ?-Thalassemia major.- Thyroid Function in Thalassemia major.- Pituitary-Gonadal Response to Short-term Pulsatile Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Administration in Young Thalassemic Patients.- Pubertal Development in Female Thalassemics.- The Pituitary-Thyroid-Gonadal Axis in Saudi ?-Thalassaemia Patients.- Insulin-dependent Diabetes mellitus in a Group of Young People with beta-Thalassemia