ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by enzyme deficiencies in the adrenal steroidogenesis pathway. The most common type is 21 hydroxylase deficiency and is divided into two groups as classical and nonclassical type. 75% of the classical type of cases is salt-losing type, and cortisol and aldosterone deficiency symptoms occur in patients. Female cases presented with ambiguus genitalia due to hyperand...

Introduction: Graves' disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in children with autoimmune thyroid disease. Clinically, goiter, tachycardia, restlessness, craniosinostosis, hyperactivity, growth retardation, diarrhea may occur.Graves' disease is rare under 4 years of age. Treatment options include antithyroid therapy, surgery, and radioiodine therapy. The most commonly used antithyroid therapy is methimazole and has serious side effects such...

Introduction: GLIS3 is a member of the GLI-similar zinc finger protein family encoding for a nuclear protein that maps to chromosome 9p24.3-p23. Mutations in GLIS3 have been reported in association with Neonatal diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism syndrome. We aimed to present a case of congenital diabetes mellitus congenital hypothyroidism associated with a newly identified mutation in the GLIS-3 gene.Case Report: A se...

Background: Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is an acute life-threatening dermatosis characterised by conjunctivitis, oral ulcerations, fever, and erythematous macules. The most important etiological factors are infections and drugs including anticonvulsants and nonsteroidal anti- inflammatories.Objective and hypotheses: Cases with both SJS and type 1 diabetes mellitus have been reported rarely in the literature. Herein, we report a diabetic case of recurr...

Background: Limbic encephalitis (LE) is a neurological disorder characterized with amnesia, seizures, personality changes. LE is usually considered as paraneoplastic disorder. Infections, paraneoplastic disorders and autoimmunity should be considered in LE etiology. Association of type 1 diabetes mellitus and LE is very rare. Here in we report a patient who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) six months after LE occurrence.Case: A 17-year-...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate demographic characteristics; clinical, laboratory, imaging features; and response to treatment of boys who were followed up and treated with the diagnosis of central precocious puberty (CPP) in Turkiye.Materials and Methods: The study was planned as a multicenter, retrospective study. Cases with a diagnosis of CPP, whose follow-up data were available were included. Patient...