ESPE Abstracts

Background: Maternal obesity is known to have many detrimental effects on pregnancy. Bariatric surgery represents the most efficient therapy for severe obesity. Although it is known to positively impact many pregnancy outcomes, bariatric surgery can disturb fetal growth due to nutritional deficiencies.Objective: We aim to examine the repercussions of bariatric techniques on fetal growth, and to evaluate the risk of deliv...

Keywords: Bariatric surgery, Pregnancy, Maternal obesity, Small for gestational age, fetal growth, Nutritional deficiencies.Background: Maternal obesity is known to have many detrimental effects on pregnancy. Bariatric surgery represents the most efficient therapy for severe obesity. Although it is known to positively impact many pregnancy outcomes, bariatric surgery can disturb fetal growth due to nutritional deficienci...

Keywords: Preterm newborn, Small for gestational age, Thyroid hormones, Thyroid-stimulating hormone, Thyroid dysfunctions, Thyroid function tests.Background: A common cause of neurodevelopmental impairment in children is congenital hypothyroidism, but can be preventable with adequate screening and proper management. Preterm newborns are more likely to have thyroid dysfunction, with small for gestational age (SGA) being a...

Key words: neonates, hypoglycemia, size for gestational age, gender, mode of delivery.Introduction: Neonatal hypoglycemia is one of the most common treatable metabolic disorders. Universal newborn screening for hypoglycemia is primordial in detecting persistent hypoglycemia and asymptomatic episodes in order to save neonates from adverse neurological outcomes and brain injury.Objectives:</s...

Keywords: Pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain, pregnancy outcomes, neonatal outcomes.Background: Overweight and obesity epidemic is still expanding, and it is affecting women of childbearing age. Multiple studies have shown unmatched results concerning the effect of Body Mass Index (BMI) besides gestational weight gain (GWG) on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes.Objectives: Thi...

Key words: girls, small for gestational age, thelarche, pubarche, menarche.Background: Small for gestational age (SGA) babies are more prone to have an earlier onset of pubertal development and menarche. We conducted a study comparing the first menarche of small for gestational age (SGA) to appropriate for gestational age (AGA) girl newborns.Objective: The objective of the study is...

Keywords: Retrospective descriptive study, diabetes mellitus type 1, diabetic ketoacidosis, NDS-UMC, Byblos, Lebanon, single-center experience.Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) increases worldwide especially in the Mediterranean region. Epidemiological studies about T1DM are made in many countries, but Lebanon lacks such data.Objective: This is a descriptive study of demo...

Key words: Descriptive study, short stature, Growth Hormone deficiency, Growth Hormone analogue, Lebanon, NDS-UMC, Byblos, single center experience.Background: There is a lack of national data concerning growth hormone deficiency treatment in Lebanon. The aim of this study is to describe the height gained under growth hormone therapy of 39 patients diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency (GHD).<st...

Background: A common cause of neurodevelopmental impairment in children is congenital hypothyroidism, but can be preventable with adequate screening and proper management. Preterm newborns are more likely to have thyroid dysfunction, with small for gestational age (SGA) being an additional risk factor. However, only few studies addressed the altered thyroid hormone concentrations in the first few weeks of life concluding that Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH) levels are higher...

Background: Vesico-ureteral reflux (VUR) is the most common urologic abnormality seen in children. It represents the backflow of urine from bladder to upper urinary structures due to a defect in closure of uretero-vesical junction. This condition predisposes children to repetitive pyelonephritis associated with renal scarring.Objective: Studies are continuously searching for the potential effect of VUR on growth. We aimed to assess growth indices: height...