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Note from healthcare provider:
Here is the analysis of XXXXXX height based on his growth velocity from 3/2025 and 4/2026 and the bone age film below: These serial heights confirm that linear growth is essentially complete. Over the 383-day interval (3/26/2025 → 4/13/2026) he gained 0.35 in = 0.89 cm, an annualized height velocity of ~0.85 cm/yr. Interpretation combined with the bone age Bone age 17y0m + HV <1 cm/yr = growth functionally finished. Skeletal maturity closely tracks growth remaining; the spurt is centered at 90% of final height and is long past here. Expect at most another ~1 cm, likely less, before complete physeal fusion. Current height 71.22 in (180.9 cm) is very close to his adult height; a Bayley-Pinneau prediction at this maturity would add only ~1–2%. Fusion is likely incomplete at the wrist despite this. In males, complete radial physeal fusion is present in only ~90% at age 19, with fusion ascending from foot to wrist — so knee/ankle plates are almost certainly closed while a thin radial physis may persist radiographically. Residual open physis on film does not equate to meaningful growth potential at this velocity.
Here is the analysis of XXXXXX height based on his growth velocity from 3/2025 and 4/2026 and the bone age film below: These serial heights confirm that linear growth is essentially complete. Over the 383-day interval (3/26/2025 → 4/13/2026) he gained 0.35 in = 0.89 cm, an annualized height velocity of ~0.85 cm/yr. Interpretation combined with the bone age Bone age 17y0m + HV <1 cm/yr = growth functionally finished. Skeletal maturity closely tracks growth remaining; the spurt is centered at 90% of final height and is long past here. Expect at most another ~1 cm, likely less, before complete physeal fusion. Current height 71.22 in (180.9 cm) is very close to his adult height; a Bayley-Pinneau prediction at this maturity would add only ~1–2%. Fusion is likely incomplete at the wrist despite this. In males, complete radial physeal fusion is present in only ~90% at age 19, with fusion ascending from foot to wrist — so knee/ankle plates are almost certainly closed while a thin radial physis may persist radiographically. Residual open physis on film does not equate to meaningful growth potential at this velocity.
