Precocious Puberty in Children –Pediatrics | Lecturio

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- Two key types of Precocious Puberty
- Etiologies of central precocious puberty
- Clinical evaluation of precocious puberty
- Treatment of precocious puberty

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Your tutor is Brian Alverson, MD. He is the Director for the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University in Providence, RI. He has been active in pediatric education and research for 15 years and has won over 25 teaching awards at two Ivy League Medical Schools. Dr. Alverson has extensive experience in preparing students for the USMLE exams and has test writing experience as well.

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[AAUN]

Nice video about Puberty .
I would like to add few more things here related to the causes of Precocious Puberty. The common causes of Precocious Puberty include these :-
=> Idiopathic (90 % )
=> CNS abnormalities (10 % )
( Tumors, Obstruction to CSF outflow, Granulomatous, Infectious diseases, Neurofibromatosis, Head trauma )

[martekristine]

Thank you! Helped me a lot for my pediatric exam :)

[johnrowland]

I had precocious puberty at 9. And this was before MRI was about. So according to this they must have thought i had 90% chance of a tumor ! DIsconcerting. Certainly would explain my parents reactions at the time !

[kilIstation]

I went through puberty in a way than most people. I grew to my full adult height when I was 11 **5’11”** (i should be taller, my mum is 5’10 and my dad is 6’7)

[happymorendlovu]

thank you so much. this helped me a lot.

[ibrahimf-]

I’m 26 years old male. At the age of 13 I learned that my growth plates fused. At the age of 8 I had lot of acnes and body hair. At the age of 11 I had a weak beard. So probably I have this condition. If a tumor risk is possible how can I live so many years without any critical conditon?

[elizabethrosenbaum]

Puberty now and days can start at ab early age.

And also hormone imbalance can cause this.

[LeviCinamorollBlox]

My daughter is 5 and a half and she developed a breast bud about 2 weeks ago on the right breast and last week the left breast as well. Her height is that of an average 7 year old even though neither me nor my husband is genetically tall. I saw a google search about the effect of precocious puberty being taller than average at first, then the growth will stop soon and they end up being smaller than average.. huhu.. as if that is not bad enough, the medical article goes on to say that the cause is usually some sort of cyst or tumor in many possible parts of the body, could be in the brain or in the ovary or elsewhere.. We went to the doctor today and she told us not to worry and there was nothing we could do. She said my child would continue to grow like normal, but I doubt she knew what she was talking about. I dont think she has handled many cases like this. She even said that she wouldn't call it early puberty or precocious puberty anymore because many kids are getting it. For pete's sake my child is 5 and developed tender breast buds.. it is indeed early for a puberty!!! I dont know if we could find a doctor who specializes in this case and actually knows how to solve this.

[foodiesworldUSA]

Is it bone age advance or delay? He says delay but slide and following explanation states advanced

[hughjainus]

I had a full beard at 11 years old. I’m not joking. Should I get checked for a tumor?

[elizabethrosenbaum]

My daughter is 7 and has grown hairs on her back at a young age and starting of her breast slowly developing is this normal should I be taking her to the Dr I started developing at age 12

[clary_]

My daughter when she was born had developed lil breasts. Her pediatrics had blood tests done for hormones and it turns out she has that precocious puberty..she's 7 . I'm totally scared . She has to get an MRI. Dr. told me that treatments to this are getting a surgery with a device that releases medicine or taking shots every 3 months..& tbh I really don't want to do all that to her body if puberty hits early I just want to let her body be. 😩 now that I watched this video I'm just hearing tumors and tumors I'm so concerned

[hotpinkmadness]

I just came here after watching the story of Lina Medina

[supergalaxyboy]

I hit puberty at age 11 and i dont have precocious puberty idk why im watching this

[Heyokasirenieisxso]

is because they are forced to grow up to fast as above so below as within as without (epigenetics) and (foods/drugs)

[drchalontikarani]

My baby got brest grows big. Hre age of 8, his 9+ years now, his period has started 1 month ago, is this a problem or good because I know that it starts from 11 years.she is small bur early stared priod! Why.

[bcreative]

Ppl need to wake up and realize when children are victims of SA this will happen and honestly it's fd up makes you sick everytime you have a period well into adulthood. And yea it's hormonal. Yea you do but you have to cover up the sexual abuse 😢

[wannySB]

F i hit puberty at 8 but atleast I'm tall

[gamingwithhollyandoliveryt]

am I gonna die im 9 and I'm going through puberty?