Avaliação da baixa estatura

Last reviewed: 20 Aug 2025
Last updated: 27 Aug 2025

Summary

Differentials

Common

  • Baixa estatura familiar (baixa estatura genética)
  • Retardo constitucional do crescimento e desenvolvimento
  • Baixa estatura idiopática
  • Pequeno para a idade gestacional (PIG) sem recuperação do crescimento até os 2 anos de idade
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Uncommon

  • Deficiência de hormônio do crescimento (GH)
  • Hipotireoidismo
  • Síndrome de Cushing
  • Insensibilidade ao GH (síndrome de Laron)
  • Craniofaringioma
  • Síndrome de Turner
  • Síndrome de Noonan
  • Síndrome de Russell-Silver
  • Trissomia do cromossomo 21
  • Síndrome de Prader-Willi (SPW)
  • Síndrome de DiGeorge (síndrome velocardiofacial)
  • Doença celíaca
  • Fibrose cística (FC)
  • Asma (moderada ou grave)
  • Cardiopatia crônica (congênita ou adquirida)
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Insuficiência renal crônica
  • Artrite idiopática juvenil
  • Doença de Crohn
  • Colite ulcerativa
  • Neoplasia maligna
  • Acidose tubular renal
  • Raquitismo
  • Displasias esqueléticas (por exemplo, acondroplasia, hipocondroplasia, osteogênese imperfeita)
  • Distúrbios da coluna vertebral (irradiação, cirurgia, deformidades congênitas)
  • Privação psicossocial (abuso, negligência, privação alimentar e institucionalização)
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Bulimia nervosa
  • Síndrome alcoólica fetal
  • Medicamentos estimulantes para transtorno de deficit da atenção com hiperatividade (TDAH)
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Contributors

Authors

Renee Bargman, MS, MD
Renee Bargman

Pediatric Endocrinology

NYC Health and Hospitals/SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Brooklyn

NY

Disclosures

RB declares that she has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Renee Bargman would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Maria Vogiatzi, a previous contributor to this topic.

Peer reviewers

Ian Marshall, MD

Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology

Assistant Professor

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

New Brunswick

NY

Disclosures

IM declares that he has no competing interests.

Raphael David, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Director

Pediatric Endocrinology

New York University Medical Center

New York

NY

Disclosures

RD declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Wit JM, Kamp GA, Oostdijk W, et al. Towards a rational and efficient diagnostic approach in children referred for growth failure to the general paediatrician. Horm Res Paediatr. 2019;91(4):223-40.Full text  Abstract

Cooke R, Goulet O, Huysentruyt K, et al. Catch-up growth in infants and young children with faltering growth: expert opinion to guide general clinicians. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2023 Jul 1;77(1):7-15.Full text  Abstract

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Faltering growth: recognition and management of faltering growth in children. Sept 2017 [internet publication].Full text

Cohen P, Rogol AD, Deal CL, et al. Consensus statement on the diagnosis and treatment of children with idiopathic short stature: a summary of the Growth Hormone Research Society, the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Workshop. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Nov;93(11):4210-7.Full text  Abstract

Bryant J, Baxter L, Cave CB, et al. Recombinant growth hormone for idiopathic short stature in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Jul 18;(3):CD004440.Full text  Abstract

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