ESPE Abstracts

Background: StAR deficiency is a rare cause of primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI), with fewer than 100 cases reported worldwide. The first patients to be described suffered from severe forms of lipoid adrenal hyperplasia leading to severe undervirilization in 46,XY foetuses. More recently, however, less severe forms, known as "non-classical" or "atypical lipoid adrenal hyperplasia", presenting with PAI with salt wasting (SW) syndrome and norma...

Background: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), resulting from mutations in CYP11B1 (gene encoding 11β-hydroxylase), is a rare autosomal recessive disorder due to an impairment of the last steroidogenesis step. Consequences are a decreased cortisol secretion, elevated plasma levels of ACTH, and accumulation of steroid precursors responsible of hyperandrogenism and hypertension. It is the second most frequent cause of CAH after 21-Hydroxylase de...