Saizen is a growth hormone. The main action of Saizen is to increase growth in children and adolescents and treat adults with growth hormone deficiency.

The growth hormone (somatropin) (hgh) contained in Saizen is practically the same as natural human growth hormone except that it has been produced outside the body by a process called “recombinant DNA technology” (genetic engineering).

Saizen is used:

In children and adolescents:

for the treatment of children with short stature who have not grown enough because their body does not produce or produces insufficient levels of growth hormone
for the treatment of girls who have not grown enough due to gonadal dysgenesis (also called Turner syndrome), confirmed by chromosome analysis
for the treatment of prepubertal children who have not grown enough due to chronic kidney failure, a condition in which the kidneys are damaged
for the treatment of growth problems in children who were born small and who have not reached normal height by 4 years of age or later.

In adults:

for the treatment of adults with a pronounced lack of growth hormone (growth hormone deficiency).
This treatment is given to adults with a pronounced growth hormone deficiency that has been medically diagnosed through testing.