ESPE Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate the severity and the correlates of depressive symptoms in adolescents with obesity comparing to normal adolescents in Hong Kong using a validated screening tools: Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for age 11-17 in Hong Kong.Methods: In this prospective and retrospective cross-sectional study. We recruited 840 adolescents, including 306 adolescents with obesity from clinic and local schools. We...

Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is a rare subtypes of thyroid cancer in children that consists of less than 10% of thyroid cancer. It has a wide range of clinical behaviors from indolent to widely metastasis. There are currently no evidence-based consensus or management guidelines for FTC in children. We describe the treatment challenges in a 9-year old girl with encapsulated angiovasive follicular thyroid carcinoma post right hemithyroidectomy with an enlarged left submand...

Keywords: Prader-Willi syndrome; Gut microbiota; Insulin sensitivity; Metagenomics sequencing; Obesity.Aim: Obesity is the main driving factor for comorbidities in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) patients due to overeating behaviors. The gut microbiota has been implicated in the aetiology of obesity and associated comorbidities. The purpose of the present study is to characterize the fecal microbiota in Chinese patients with...

Keywords: Primary ovarian insufficiency; Microsomal maintenance complex 8; Cell apoptosis; Cell cycle; PI3K/AKTBackground: Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) with a chromosome karyotype of 46,XX in children, compared to adults, is difficult to diagnose and often seek medical attention due to delayed puberty or short stature. We have reported the two novel pathogenic mutations p.C242R and p.S445*of MCM8 gene in a pedigre...

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Objective: Serum Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) and Inhibin-B (INHB) levels were assessed in patients with Turner Syndrome (TS) of different karyotypes, and ovarian reserve function was evaluated by AMH and INHB in patients with TS.Methods: From January 2021 to January 2024, 52 patients diagnosed with TS aged 4-17 years were diagnosed in the Department of Endocrinology, Genetics and Metabolism of Jiangxi Provincial Childre...

Objective: To analyze the correlation between glucose metabolism disorder and bone turnover markers in obese adolescents.Methods: From June 2022 to June 2023, 50 obese adolescents in West China Second Hospital of Sichuan University were taken as the research group, and 50 adolescents with normal weight who received health examination at the same time were taken as the control group. The general data, glucose metabolism i...

Background: Hyperprolactinemia can be physiological or due to a pharmacological/pathological cause. It is relatively rare in childhood and poorly described in the literature.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the etiology, clinical findings and management of hyperprolactinemia in children.Method: We reviewed the records of 91 children with hyperprolactinemia (Prolactin level >760 mU/...

Background: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease (AID) whose primary features include progressive pancreatic β cell damage and absolute insufficient endogenous insulin secretion. Recent studies have shown that a Th1/Th2 cell subset unbalance and excessively activated B lymphocytes are important pathogenic mechanisms.Objective and hypotheses: To investigate the protective effects of Adenovirus-mediated IL-10 gene and anti-CD20 monoclonal an...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) is caused by complete or partial of the second sex chromosome and characterized bygrowth failure, primary ovarian failure, the constellation of the lymphedema sequence, characteristic facial features, left-sided cardiac anomalies, renal anomaly, and skeletal anomalies. Among all of the associated traits, cardiovascular abnormalities are common in TS and an important cause of early mortality. Hence, our aim is to investigate the...