Smell and puberty in CHARGE syndrome

Description

Smell deficiency and delayed/absent puberty often occur in CHARGE syndrome, but few studies have looked at these features in adolescent patients. Therefore, we studied smell and puberty development in 22 adolescent CHARGE patients and showed that puberty and smell problems always co-occur. Therefore, a smell test can possibly predict whether puberty will occurspontaneously or not. This will prevent delay of hormonal pubertal induction, resulting in an age-appropriate puberty in smell deficient CHARGE patients.

Period	25-Jul-2009
Event title	9th International CHARGE conference
Event type	Conference
Location	Chicago, United StatesShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International