Lipoatrophy following weekly growth hormone therapy: a case report.

OBJECTIVES

Traditional daily recombinant human growth hormone injections can be burdensome for patients and caregivers, leading to compliance issues. Long-acting growth hormone formulations have been developed to overcome these challenges.

CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 7-year-old girl who developed severe lipoatrophy secondary to repeated somatrogon injections at the same anatomical site during the third month of therapy, with complete resolution after 10 weeks of treatment discontinuation.

CONCLUSIONS

To our knowledge, this is only the second reported case of somatrogon-induced lipoatrophy in the literature. This case also showed that lipoatrophy developing as a result of somatogron treatment is a reversible side effect.