A revised and updated fourth edition of this comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of pediatric endocrinology Presents the latest evidence for the diagnosis and management of pediatric disorders to every endocrine system and gland Utilizes a consistent chapter format describing clinical features, diagnostic criteria, and management strategies

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Sally Radovick, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Director, Clinical and Translational Research Institute

The University of Arizona

Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH.

Benjamin Armistead Shepherd Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Physician-in-Chief, UVA Health Children's

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Part I: Pediatric Growth Disorders.- Childhood Growth Hormone Deficiency and Hypopituitarism .- Growth Hormone Insensitivity .- Normal Variant and Idiopathic Short Stature .- Growth Hormone Treatment of the Short Child Born Small for Gestational Age .- Growth Hormone Therapy in Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome.- Growth Hormone Therapy in Children with Turner Syndrome, Noonan Syndrome, and SHOX Gene Mutations .- Management of Adults with Childhood-Onset Growth Hormone Deficiency .- Skeletal Dysplasias .- Growth Hormone Excess and Other Conditions of Overgrowth .- Part II: Pediatric Adrenal Disorders.- Adrenal Insufficiency .- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia .- Cushing Syndrome in Childhood .- Mineralocorticoid Disorders and Endocrine Hypertension .- Part III: Pediatric Thyroid Disorders.- Congenital Hypothyroidism .- Autoimmune Thyroid Disease .- Non-thyroidal illness Syndrome .- Resistance to Thyroid Hormone (RTH) and Resistance to TSH (RTSH) .- Thyroid Neoplasia .- Part IV: Pediatric Mineral and Bone Disorders.- Abnormalities in Calcium Homeostasis .- Disorders of Phosphate Homeostasis .- Rickets: The Skeletal Disorders of Impaired Calcium or Phosphate Availability.- Pseudohypoparathyrodiism .- The Management of Osteoporosis in Children .- Part V: Pediatric Reproductive Disorders.- Delayed puberty onset and hypogonadism .- Precocious Puberty .- Management of Infants Born with Disorders/Differences of Sex Development .- Menstrual Disorders and Hyperandrogenism in Adolescence .- Hyperprolactinemia .- Part VI: Pediatric Metabolic Disorders.- Hypoglycemia .- Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents .- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Youth.- Disorders of Lipid Metabolism .- Endocrinologic Sequelae of Anorexia Nervosa and Obesity .- Part VII: Other Pediatric Endocrine Disorders.- Diabetes Insipidus: Arginine Vasopressin Deficiency and Arginine Vasopressin Resistance .- Autoimmune Endocrine Disorders .- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia and Familial Isolated Pituitary Adenoma in the paediatric population .- McCune Albright Syndrome.- Management of Acute and Late Endocrine Effects of Childhood Cancer Treatment .- Care of Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth .- Management of Endocrine Emergencies .- The Endocrine Response to Critical Illness.