Delayed puberty causes
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
Disease name] may be caused by [cause1], [cause2], or [cause3].
OR
Common causes of [disease] include [cause1], [cause2], and [cause3].
OR
The most common cause of [disease name] is [cause 1]. Less common causes of [disease name] include [cause 2], [cause 3], and [cause 4].
OR
The cause of [disease name] has not been identified. To review risk factors for the development of [disease name], click here.
Causes
Life-threatening Causes
- Life-threatening causes include conditions which may result in death or permanent disability within 24 hours if left untreated. There are no life-threatening causes of delayed puberty, however complications resulting from untreated delayed puberty are common.
Common Causes
Delayed puberty may be caused by:
- Mumps
- Cryptorchidism
- Turner syndrome
- Testicular trauma
- Testicular torsion
- Sickle cell disease
- Thalassemia
- Kallmann syndrome
- Isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
- Hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) Axis development disorder
- Obesity and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
- Cystic fibrosis
- Asthma
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Celiac disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- Excessive exercise
- Malnutrition
Less Common Causes
Less common causes of disease name include:
- Noonan syndrome and related disorders
- Fragile X premutation
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Vanishing testes syndrome
- Coxsackie virus
- Galactosemia
- Autoimmune oophiritis
- Autoimmune orchitis
- 5-alpha reductase deficiency
- 17,20-lyase deficiency
- Congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia
- Androgen insensitivity
- Sertoli cell only syndrome (Del Castillo syndrome)
- Astrocytoma
- Germinoma
- Glioma
- Craniopharyngioma
- Prolactinoma
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Rathke pouch cyst
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome
- CHARGE syndrome
- Gaucher disease
- Post central nervous system infection
- Septo-optic dysplasia
- Congenital hypopituitarism
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation therapy
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Anorexia nervosa
- Bulimia
- Hemosiderosis
- Chronic renal disease
- AIDS
- Hypothyroidism
- Hyperprolactinemia
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Cushing syndrome
Genetic Causes
- [Disease name] is caused by a mutation in the [gene name] gene.
Causes by Organ System
| Cardiovascular | No underlying causes |
| Chemical/Poisoning | No underlying causes |
| Dental | No underlying causes |
| Dermatologic | No underlying causes |
| Drug Side Effect | No underlying causes |
| Ear Nose Throat | No underlying causes |
| Endocrine | No underlying causes |
| Environmental | No underlying causes |
| Gastroenterologic | No underlying causes |
| Genetic | No underlying causes |
| Hematologic | No underlying causes |
| Iatrogenic | No underlying causes |
| Infectious Disease | No underlying causes |
| Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic | No underlying causes |
| Neurologic | No underlying causes |
| Nutritional/Metabolic | No underlying causes |
| Obstetric/Gynecologic | No underlying causes |
| Oncologic | No underlying causes |
| Ophthalmologic | No underlying causes |
| Overdose/Toxicity | No underlying causes |
| Psychiatric | No underlying causes |
| Pulmonary | No underlying causes |
| Renal/Electrolyte | No underlying causes |
| Rheumatology/Immunology/Allergy | No underlying causes |
| Sexual | No underlying causes |
| Trauma | No underlying causes |
| Urologic | No underlying causes |
| Miscellaneous | No underlying causes |
Causes in Alphabetical Order
List the causes of the disease in alphabetical order.