Endocrinology

Endocrinology is a medical subspecialty that deals with disorders of glands in the human body. In children and teenagers, these glands are particularly important as they produce hormones necessary for optimal growth, puberty development and general well being. Children are not just small adults. Problems seen by paediatric endocrinologists are quite different from those commonly seen by endocrinologists who care for adults. Our paediatric endocrinologists care for your child in a setting that is appropriate for children and teens, together with nurses, diabetes educators and nutritionists who are attuned to their special needs.

We offer a full range of diagnostic, treatment and management services for the newborn through childhood and adolescence into early adulthood. Our clinics serve as referral centres for hormone related conditions such as growth disorders, puberty disorders, diabetes, thyroid disorders, lipid disorders, primary hypo-pituatarism and congenital adrenal disorders.

Range of Services

Core Services

• Children's Growth and Puberty Clinic
  • Assessment and management of short or inappropriately tall stature in children
  • Growth hormone therapy
  • Assessment and management of early or delayed puberty
  • Medical suppression of precocious puberty
• Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Programme
  • Screening for children and teenagers at risk of diabetes
  • Care and complications assessment for newly diagnosed and continuing diabetes
  • Insulin pump initiation and follow-up services
  • Planned transition to adult diabetes care
  • Diabetes education and counselling services
• Children's Thyroid
  Clinic Assessment and management of disorders of thyroid gland hyper-and hypofunction such as Grares' disease, Hashimoto's disease and Congenital hypothyroidism

Other Specialised Services

• Children's Lipid Clinic
  • Management of congenital lipid disorders
  • Management of hypercholesterolemia in children at high risk of coronary vascular disease
• Pituitary Hormone Replacement Services
  • Referral centre for children with primary hypo-pituitarism
  • Referral centre for children with secondary hypo-pituitarism (e.g. following brain tumour surgery, pituitary hemosiderosis)
• Management of childhood adrenal disease
• Management of ambiguous genitalia and disorders of sexual differentiation
• Management of rickets and paediatric bone disease

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