ESPE Abstracts

Background: Secondary PHA is a transient aldosterone resistance condition mostly occurring in relation with urinary system infection and/or malformations. Secondary PHA cases and very few case series have been reported in the literature. In this article, we reported a case series of eight patients including different clinic presentations which have not as yet been reported in the literatüre and their long-term follow-ups.Method: Patients who have se...

Background: It is known that PDX-1 gene mutation is related to neonatal diabetes, pancreas agenesis and intrauterine growth retardation. Here the aim was to present a novel defined mutation in PDX-1 gene in case born with IUGR, diagnosed with neonatal diabetes and in which exocrine pancreas deficiency and gallbladder agenesis were detected.Case presentation: Blood glucose was measured as 185 mg/dl in the first hour after birth and insulin infusion was gi...

Background: X-linked lissencephaly with ambiguous genitalia (XLAG) syndrome which is a clinical spectrum of ARX mutations is presented with severe growth deficiency, abnormal genitalia and resistant seizures in neonatal period. We present a XLAG case which was formed due to a new ARX mutation and has an appearance of a huge interhemispheric cyst different from classic neuroradiological imagings.Case: The case which was diagnosed with prenatal hydrocephal...

Background: Collodion babies (CBs) are an inherited group of diseases characterized clinically by diffuses severely dry and scaling skin. Patients are generally born prematurely and/or small for gestational age (SGA). Congenital hypothyroidism is seen together with various congenital anomalies, although the mechanism involved is still unclear.Objective and hypotheses: To identify endocrinological problems, and particularly those concerning growth, in 42 ...