ESPE Abstracts

Background: Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) are at a high risk of having other autoimmunological diseases. The most common coexisting disease is autoimmune thyroiditis, which is diagnosed in 15–30% diabetic patients. The incidence of the disease depends on the age, sex, and duration of T1DM.Aims and objectives: This study aims to assess the prevalence of anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies and anti-thyroglobulin antibodies in children with newly...

Background: Children at type 1 diabetes (T1DM) diagnosis can develop ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening condition, which is most frequently associated with the onset of diabetes in children aged <5 years.Aims and objectives: We studied the prevalence of DKA at T1DM diagnosis and the frequency of partial remission (PR) in children from Wielkopolska province, Poland.Method: The cohort comprised 735 children aged 0–18 yea...

Background: An iatrogenic adrenal insufficiency as the consequence of chronic oral high doses steroid therapy is well known to developmental age medicine, other iatrogenic causes of this condition being rare.Objective and hypotheses: The primary objective of this study is to describe cases of adrenal dysfunction – hypofunction as well as hyperfunction - being caused by factors other than oral steroid therapy.Method: This is an...

Introduction: After contact with the antigen, lymphocytes require activation for proliferation and differentiation into effector cells. Activation of lymphocytes results in the expression of activation markers. The CD69 antigen appears first on the surface of lymphocytes. This occurs one hour after receiving the activation signal. The CD69 molecule acts as a cellular stimulating signal, causing further activation and proliferation of cells, stimulating the syn...

Introduction: Vitamin D activity is controlled by its receptor (VDR). Increased risk of obesity and metabolic disturbances among certain VDR alleles has been proven. This study was conducted to assess the association between Cdx2 (rs11568820) polymorphism of VDR gene (genotypes: AG, GG) and genetic susceptibility to components of the lipid profile in survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treated during childhood.<stron...

Background: Combine pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD) may be caused by many factors. One – them is PROP1 gene mutation, that causes maldevelopment of GH, TSH, LH, FSH prolactin but not ACTH, producing cells (CPHD–PROP1).Objective and hypotheses: The details of possible differences between phenotypes of CPHD–PROP1 and CPHD of other reasons (CPHD–nonPROP1) are not clear to date. The aim of the study...

Background: Severe obesity among adolescents is increasing worldwide. Bariatric surgery is a controversial subject in this group of age, surgical timing is even more controversial. Patterns of surgical weight loss could be different between patients with greater excess weight, perhaps with less promising results.Objective and hypotheses: To compare anthropometric outcomes among adolescents with BMI 35–40 and over 40, underwent laparoscopic sleeve ga...

Introduction: Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome (PMDS) is a rare disorder of sex development (DSD) characterized by the persistence of Müllerian derivatives, the uterus and/or fallopian tubes, in otherwise normally virilized boys. PMDS is caused by mutations in the genes coding anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH, PMDS type 1) or the AMH receptor (AMHR2 gene, PMDS type 2) and it usually presents as undescended testes (cryptorchidism) or inguinal hernia...