Growth disorders
31 entries in the Growth Disorders compendium.
AcromegalyDisorder of excess growth hormone after growth plates close.Belangenvereniging van Kleine MensenDutch patient organization for little people and skeletal dysplasia.Bundesverband Kleinwüchsige Menschen und ihre FamilienGerman self-help organization for short statured individuals and families.GigantismA rare condition of excessive growth from childhood hormone overproduction.Brooke GreenbergFirst documented case of neotenic complex syndrome.Growth hormone deficiencyMedical condition from insufficient growth hormone.HemihypertrophyCongenital overgrowth disorder with increased tumor risk.HypochondroplasiaA genetic disorder causing disproportionate short stature and skeletal dysplasia.Isolated growth hormone deficiencyRare congenital disorder causing growth hormone deficiency.Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasiaRare genetic disorder from PTH1R activating mutations.Kowarski syndromeGrowth failure from bioinactive growth hormone despite normal immunoassay levels.Laron syndromeA rare disorder causing severe short stature and metabolic protection.Little People of AmericaFirst North American organization supporting people with dwarfism.Local gigantismA condition of excessive growth in a body part.Macrodystrophia lipomatosaRare congenital disorder causing localized fatty overgrowth of an extremity.MAGIC FoundationNonprofit aiding families of children with growth disorders.Meier-Gorlin syndromeRare genetic disorder with growth deficiency, ear and patellar abnormalities.MidgetTerm for proportionate dwarfism with disputed pejorative status.Neotenic complex syndromeA rare syndrome of extreme developmental delay with neoteny.Overgrowth syndromeRare childhood disorders marked by tissue overgrowth.Parastremmatic dwarfismRare congenital bone disease with severe dwarfism and distorted limbs.Primordial dwarfismA severe dwarfism disorder present from before birth.PseudoachondroplasiaA skeletal dysplasia causing short stature from COMP gene mutations.Psychosocial short statureGrowth disorder from extreme emotional deprivation or stress.Seckel syndromeRare congenital disorder with dwarfism, microcephaly, and bird-like face.Silver–Russell syndromeA rare congenital growth disorder named after two physicians.Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia-short limb-abnormal calcification syndromeRare genetic disorder causing short stature and abnormal calcifications.Stunted growthImpaired growth in children due to poverty, malnutrition, and poor sanitation.Temple syndromeRare genetic disorder from chromosome 14 imprinting abnormalities.Thanatophoric dysplasiaA severe genetic skeletal disorder often lethal at birth.Turner syndromeChromosomal disorder in females with one X chromosome.
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