ESPE Abstracts

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the relation between the peak growth hormone (GH) levels on provocative tests and response to recombinant human GH (rhGH) therapy in patients with GH deficiency (GHD).Methods: This was a cross-sectional, single-center, and retrospective study. A total of 518 patients who received rhGH therapy under the age of 16 in the Endocrinology Clinic of Akdeniz University Hospital between 1997 and 20...

Aim: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa) are widely used in the treatment of idiopathic central precocious puberty (ICPP) cases due to premature maturation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis. The effect of GnRHa therapy on body weight and fat distribution is controversial in the literature. We aimed to examine the anthropometric measurements and body composition analysis of the girls with ICPP and to investigate the effect of related factors...

Objective: We aimed to examine the auxological findings of the girls diagnosed with idiopathic central precocious puberty (CPP) at the end of the Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs (GnRHa) treatment and to investigate the effect of related factors on the height gain of those patients.Methods: This study was designed as single-center, descriptive, cross-sectional retrospective study. A total of 43 patients who were di...

Objective: Secondary osteoporosis has a high rate of accompanying chronic diseases. We aimed to review the clinical and laboratory features, underlying causes, Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) results before and after treatment of patients diagnosed with secondary osteoporosis and to determine the relationship between this condition and fracture rates.Methods: This study was designed as a single-center, descriptiv...

Introduction and Purpose: Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus must be extremely concerned with what they eat and their insulin dose as part of their treatment. Therefore, the risk of eating disorders increases in this patient group. This study, it was aimed to determine the disordered eating behaviors of patients with Type 1 DM and to evaluate the results of the general demographic characteristics, diabetes care behaviors, and quality of life scale that whi...

Introduct&idot;on: Thyroid cancers are rare malignancies in childhood and their incidence is between 1.5-3% among all childhood cancers. Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) constitutes more than 90% of childhood thyroid cancers. Risk factors for thyroid cancer include; There are iodine deficiency, radiation exposure, radiotherapy to the head and neck region, and genetic predisposition. We will present an 8-year-old case who presented with a complaint of neck swelli...

Objective: Mixed gonadal dysgenesis (MGD) (45,X,46,XY mosaicism) is a rare chromosomal disorders of sexual development (DSD). In this article, single center data were evaluated.Material Method: From the files of ten patients followed up with the diagnosis of mixed gonadal dysgenesis, complaints and physical examination findings, laboratory tests, chromosome analysis, FISH results, ultrasound, laparoscopy, pathology repor...

Background: It is known that obese children are at higher risk in terms of cardiovascular diseases when compared with normal weight children. Recent studies emphasizes on the fact that there is a relation between TSH and several cardiovascular risk factors in obese children.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of the study is to investigate the relation between cardiometabolic risk factors and thyroid function tests in obese children....

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate demographic characteristics; clinical, laboratory, imaging features; and response to treatment of boys who were followed up and treated with the diagnosis of central precocious puberty (CPP) in Turkiye.Materials and Methods: The study was planned as a multicenter, retrospective study. Cases with a diagnosis of CPP, whose follow-up data were available were included. Patient...

Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is defined as a patient’s subjective perception related to the satisfaction with own health. There is no enough data on HRQOL of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) living in Turkey.Objective: To evaluate HRQOL in children and adolescents with T1D compared with healthy controls in Turkey, and to identify HRQOL determinants.Method: A total of 133 children and ad...