Leuprolide in Determining the Cause of Gonadotropin Deficiency

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 1998-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: The body's response to one injection of leuprolide may provide more information than the standard test for gonadotropin deficiency in determining whether the cause of gonadotropin deficiency is related to the hypothalamus or the pituitary gland.

PURPOSE: Randomized double-blinded clinical trial to study the effectiveness of leuprolide in determining the cause of gonadotropin deficiency.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Chicago
• Treatments: Hormones; Leuprolide

Criteria

PROTOCOL ENTRY CRITERIA:

--Disease Characteristics--

• Prepubertal children with constitutionally delayed puberty At least 2 years retardation of bone age Spontaneously progress into puberty within 1 year Boys: Testes long diameter 2.5-3.5 cm and plasma testosterone 40-300 ng/dL Girls: Breast development, but premenarcheal OR Hypogonadotropinism Delayed onset of pubertal milestones associated with anterior panhypopituitarism OR Kallman's syndrome No spontaneous progression into puberty within 2 years after 6 months replacement sex steroid treatment

--Prior/Concurrent Therapy--

• At least 2 months since prior sex hormone treatment

--Patient Characteristics--

• Age: 14-18 for children with hypogonadotropinism 9-13 for normal children

• Other: No chronic systemic disease No metabolic disease No endocrine disease No growth hormone deficiency