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Precocious Puberty (Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment), Central precocious puberty (CPP) This is also known as true precocious puberty and is a gonadotrophin-dependent type of precocious ...
Normal and Abnormal Puberty (Stages and Assessments), See also the separate Delayed Puberty and Precocious Puberty articles. What is puberty? Pubert...
Delayed Puberty, What is delayed puberty? [ 1 ] Normal puberty occurs across an age range, and diagnosis of pathology requires familiarity with the normal range. , ...
Premature Babies, What is a premature baby? A premature baby is one who is born earlier than expected. Babies are normally born at around 40 weeks of pregnancy.
Premature Labour, There are treatments which can sometimes stop premature labour. What is premature labour and how common is it? Being in premature (or preterm...
Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, Premature ovarian insufficiency is sometimes called premature ovarian failure. The condition occurs when your ovaries no longer work proper...
Premature Ejaculation, Hyperthyroidism and nervous system diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and peripheral neuropathy , can be a cause of acquired premature ejaculation. ...
Feeding Premature Babies, This leaflet explores some of the ways in which you and the hospital staff can feed your premature (preterm) baby in the early weeks. How are prematur...
Precocious puberty affects more than 50% of females and presents as premature thelarche or menarche as early as 2-3 years old. , Mccune-albright syndrome Premature puberty
Gonadotrophin deficiency Gonadotrophin deficiency is difficult to assess in girls prior to puberty or in boys after age 3-6 months and before puberty. Follicle-stimulating h...
Premature Ejaculation, What is premature ejaculation? The definition for premature ejaculation has been debated over the years but many experts in the field currently r...
Premature Labour, Synonym: preterm labour What is premature labour? Premature labour may be defined as the presence of contractions of...
Premature Babies and their Problems, If the baby requires oxygen it must be monitored very carefully as, if the levels are too high, the premature baby is susceptible to retrolental ...
Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, Synonym: premature ovarian failure What is premature ovarian insufficiency? Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) occurs ...
How is adrenarche different to puberty? Puberty tends to occur a few years after adrenarche in the teen years. Puberty relates to the changes that happen to the body as a...
Paediatric vulvovaginitis is a common cause of soreness or irritation of the genital area of young girls before puberty. It is usually caused by a combination of a natural lack of oestrogen a...
There is a high risk of IVH in babies who were born very early (premature babies). Why are premature babies at risk of intraventricular haemorrhage? In premature babies, th...
These include: Before puberty Girls start to go through puberty from around the age of 9 years and their periods start a year or two later.
This is esepcially important to those that may have not reached puberty yet. The evidence suggests that people who have had the procedure can become pregnant and have successful live births ...
Males with Klinefelter's syndrome have small testicles (testes) which do not produce enough of the male hormone testosterone before birth and during puberty. This lack of testosterone mea...