[Growth hormone response to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia in children with normal stature or normal variant short stature].

Definition of normal values of growth hormone (GH) during insulin-induced hypoglycaemia was based on experience in a group of 30 pre-pubertal children (age range 6.4-16.8 years) with normal stature or with normal variant short stature.

[Captopril and enalapril in the treatment of renal hypertension].

Captopril and Enalapril, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, were used in the treatment of grave renal hypertension. The treatment concerned 40 randomly selected patients with the average creatinine clearance of 55.7 ml/min.

[Clinical and laboratory characteristics of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis in children and adolescents].

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of chronic autoimune thyroiditis were analysed in sixty-seven patients (55 girls). At the time of diagnosis the mean +/- SEM age of 67 patients was 11.6 +/- 2.

[Short stature as major clinical sign of coeliac disease in children].

Coeliac disease was found in 16 patients. 3-15 years of age, examined for short stature of unknown origin. Frequency of some clinical and laboratory findings was analysed.