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. 2016 Dec 22;87(1):42–50. doi: 10.1159/000452973

Table 2.

Reported SAEs and TEAEs during GH treatment of patients with SHOX deficiency in GeNeSIS and the clinical trial

GeNeSIS Clinical trial
Number of GH-treated patients 521 49
Patients with ≥1 SAE 12 (2.3%) 6 (12.2%)
Number of GH-treated patients with follow-up 495 49
Patients with ≥1 TEAE 98 (19.8%) 43 (87.8%)
TEAEs reported most frequentlya
 Precocious puberty 13 (2.6%) 1 (2.0%)
 Arthralgia 12 (2.4%) 6 (12.2%)
 Headache 8 (1.6%) 9 (18.4%)
 Hypothyroidism 6 (1.2%) 1 (2.0%)
 Back pain 5 (1.2%) 4 (8.2%)
 Madelung deformity 2 (0.4%) 8 (16.3%)
 Nasopharyngitis 1 (0.2%) 7 (14.3%)
 Ear infection 1 (0.2%) 6 (12.2%)
 Cough 1 (0.2%) 6 (12.2%)
 Congenital bowing of long bonesb 0 9 (18.4%)
 Vomiting 0 6 (12.2%)

GH, growth hormone; SAE, serious adverse event; SHOX, short stature homeobox-containing gene; TEAE, treatment-emergent adverse event.

a

MedDRA preferred terms; events reported in >1% of patients in GeNeSIS or >12% of clinical trial patients.

b

MedDRA preferred term states congenital, reflecting the initial clinical observation of Madelung deformity during study participation.