[Pseudo- and central precocious puberty due to adrenogenital syndrome]

Tijdschr Kindergeneeskd. 1986 Jun;54(3):77-83.
[Article in Dutch]

Abstract

We describe three patients in whom at the age of 4-7 yrs the diagnosis adrenogenital syndrome (21-hydroxylase deficiency) was made. There was no salt-loss. Two boys presented with precocious pubic hair development and increased growth velocity and bone maturation. The third patient was a severely virilized girl raised as a boy until she was 4 yrs old. Following an extensive psychiatric evaluation, it was decided to raise her as a girl and feminoplasty was performed. Clinical and biochemical evidence of central precocious puberty was present in one boy at the time of diagnosis at age 7 and developed under hydrocortisone substitution therapy in the two other patients. The precocious puberty was treated in two patients with the anti-androgen cyproterone acetate. In one boy suppression of pituitary gonadotropin secretion was obtained by LH-RH analogue (Buserelin) treatment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital / complications*
  • Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital / drug therapy
  • Buserelin / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cyproterone / analogs & derivatives
  • Cyproterone / therapeutic use
  • Cyproterone Acetate
  • Disorders of Sex Development / etiology
  • Disorders of Sex Development / surgery
  • Female
  • Genitalia / surgery
  • Humans
  • Hydrocortisone / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Puberty, Precocious / drug therapy
  • Puberty, Precocious / etiology*
  • Puberty, Precocious / surgery

Substances

  • Cyproterone Acetate
  • Cyproterone
  • Buserelin
  • Hydrocortisone