ESPE Abstracts

Background: In this study we investigated the genetic aetiology of a series patients with DSD seen in Ukraine.Materials and Methods: The Ukraine Pediatric DSD Register has 95 children with DSD between the ages of 0-18 y.o. in 2018 (a prevalence of 1 in 80097). The criterion for including patients to the database was ambiguous genitalia and/or a discrepancy between the chromosomal and gonadal/genital sex. All patients had...

Introduction: The pathology of thyroid gland is Ukraine is quite common and in 2018y included 277,708 patients with diffuse goiter (36.47 per 1000 population), 2,311 patients (0.30:1000) with nodular goiter, 341 patients with diffuse toxic goiter (0.04:1000), 7,157 (0.94:1000) with autoimmune thyroid disease and 129 patients with thyroid cancer (1.7:100000). However the syndrome of resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) or Familial Dysalbuminemic Hyperthyroxinemi...

Introduction: The birth of a child with disorders of sex development (DSD) requires a long-term strategy of monitoring and treatment which is carried out by a multidisciplinary group of professional physicians, with a mandatory understanding of the psychosocial problems in a child and parents.Materials and Methods: Gender self-identification was investigated in 20 children and adolescents with DSD aged 1.5-17 years. To d...

Background: The term ‘disorder of sex development’ (DSD) includes congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal or anatomic sex is atypical.Materials and methods: A retrospective analysis of the 75 medical cards of patients with DSD since 2000 up to 2017 year was done. The criterion for including patients to the database was ambiguous genitalia and/or a discrepancy between the chromosomal and gonadal/genital sex. At the tim...