ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices have introduced new metrics to assess metabolic situation of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Among them, the glucose management indicator (GMI) provides a proxy to HbA1c, however, these measures do not always match.Purposes: To evaluate the concordance between GMI and HbA1c, and determinate in which scenarios GMI could replace HbA1c.Subjects a...

Background: Patients who have received an hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have more risk of endocrine complications (hypothyroidism, hypogonadism, and growth retardation) but the incidence of diabetes after HSCT is not as well known. The pathogenesis of the diabetes is not well established, and is believed to be multifactorial: chemotherapy, pancreatic irradiation, inflammatory cascade and cytokines, steroids and predisposing genetic factors.<p class="abstex...