Diagnosis and treatment
Our services includes:
- three paediatric endocrine clinics per week
- a regional service for disorders of sex development (three clinics per year)
- a regional paediatric metabolic bone clinic (three clinics per year)
- a paediatric endocrinology and genetics service (two clinics per year)
- a monthly endocrine specialist nurse-led clinic to promote education and review medication
- a visiting paediatric endocrine service established in Winchester, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Poole, Dorchester, the Isle of Wight and Jersey
- dynamic endocrine function testing, undertaken by the paediatric endocrine nurse specialists on the John Atwell day ward.
Children are referred to us to investigate and manage issues such as:
- short stature
- tall stature and overgrowth syndromes
- delayed puberty and precocious puberty
- pituitary problems including growth and hormone deficiency
- thyroid disorders, acquired or congenital
- adrenal and gonadal disorders
- diabetes insipidus
- calcium disorders including hypercalcaemia, hypocalcaemia, hypoparathyroidism and hyperparathyroidism
- disorders of glucose homeostasis including hypoglycaemia
- disorders of sexual differentiation including micropenis
- polycystic ovary syndrome and menstrual problems
- hirsutism
- insulin resistance
- gynaecomastia
- neonatal endocrine disorders
- endocrine sequelae from childhood cancer treatment
- Cushing's disease and Cushing's syndrome
- phaeochromocytoma
- obesity associated with complications or monogenic obesity
- steroid management, withdrawal and advice
- inherited endocrine neoplasia syndromes.