ESPE Abstracts

Background: Suppression of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal system activity by luliberin analogues in premature sexual development of the central genesis is accompanied by a decrease in growth’s velocity, sexual development and progression of bone age.Aim: Study of the effectiveness of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist therapy, their influence on the physical developmentMethods: 66 patients were treated by triptorelin. Idio...

Background: Today the features of GH therapy in children after reaching the beginning of puberty and the necessity of therapy in such age group are discussed.Objective and hypotheses: To identify the relationship between the growth increase after the start of puberty (patient’s bone age achieved 12–13 years, according to the atlas Greulich) and the individual characteristics of the patients.Method: Thirty-four patients wi...

Background: To date a lot of data on the efficacy of GH treatment of children with short stature was accumulated. GH is the major but not exclusive endocrine regulator of linear growth. Influence of multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies on the final growth remains poorly understood.Aim: To compare the results of treatment with GH in patients with isolated GH deficiency and multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies.Methods: 15 patie...

Background: Insulin pumps are widely used in the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) in children because of numbers of advantages in compare with multiple daily insulin injections (MDI). However, the long-term efficacy of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy (CSII) in achieving and maintaining of diabet stability is still not resolved.Purpose: Determine the feffectiveness-related factors of glycemic c...

Background: Growth hormone (GH) deficiency in children, confirmed by stimulation diagnostic tests, in some cases is accompanied by low effectiveness of somatropin replacement therapy, which may be associated with rare genetic syndromes.Aim: To study the growth effects of GH therapy in treating a patient with Floating-Harbor SyndromeMethods: A GH deficiency was diagnosed in a patien...

The purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of occurrence and molecular-genetic characteristics of MODY in patients with diabetes mellitus aged 1 to 18 years, residents of St. Petersburg.Materials and methods: In St. Petersburg in 2017, there were 1620 patients with diabetes mellitus under the age of 18 years. 54 of them had evidence of hereditary variants of diabetes with chronic hyperglycemia at normal c-peptide indices for 2 years after th...

Background: According to the World Health Organization, the social determinants of health, the conditions in which people are born, grow, live and work – significantly influences on health. The CAF Foundation, the Endocrinology Scientific Center and the Institute for Family Health under the Alfa-Endo Program studied prevalence of some social determinants in families of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.Objective and hypotheses: Investigate soci...