What are the side effects of growth hormone therapy in children?
Growth hormone can do the following:
- Possibly stimulate the immune system. This means your child's kidney function must be closely checked while on the growth hormone
- Increase in serum creatinine suddenly for no reason. This is blood test used to measure kidney function
- Increase in acute rejection in children who had more than one rejection in the past (found in some studies). This does not seem to happen in stable patients
- Make kidney function worse. It could do this by increasing the body's attempts to reject the kidney
- Require changes in some medications (such as prednisone)
- Cause high blood sugar, diabetes, and headache after transplant
- Spur cancer growth (has been reported in patients receiving growth hormone treatment)
- Cause high blood pressure
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