ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: The BSPED Peer review programme was developed to provide a regular cycle of independent impartial professional assessment, against agreed quality standards for Specialised Paediatric Endocrine Services (SPES) in the UK.1 The aim is to continuously promote best quality of care for children and young people with endocrine disorders requiring National Health Service treatment at a SPES. We present here an evaluation of the process during this first revie...

Background: Heterozygous loss-of-function HNF4A mutations are known to lead to monogenic diabetes, and in infants to macrosomia and hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia. We are reporting a patient with a heterozygous HNF4A mutation (c.997C>T p.ARG333Cys) presenting with persistent ketotic hypoglycemia.Case report: In a 38 weeks’ gestation infant (birth weight 4.1 kg, pregnancy complicated by insulin-requiring gestational diabetes), hy...