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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease craniopharyngioma
Symptom C0271885|hypothalamic obesity
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PubMedID- 25431867 Childhood craniopharyngioma with hypothalamic obesity - no long-term weight reduction due to rehabilitation programs.
PubMedID- 26371051 The most striking examples of treatment resistant childhood obesity are observed in patients with dysfunctional hypothalamic signaling, such as in prader-willi syndrome, hypothalamic obesity (ho) due to craniopharyngioma (cp), or in subjects with deficient melanocortin signaling, leading to hyperphagia and excessive weight gain 5.
PubMedID- 22506774 Objective: to retrospectively analyse the effectiveness of bariatric surgery for hypothalamic obesity in patients with craniopharyngioma (cp).
PubMedID- 24904871 Recent data has shown that hypothalamic obesity patients with craniopharyngioma have decreased urinary homovanillic acid and vanillylmandelic acid, indicating reduced sympathetic tone40).

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