ESPE Abstracts

The purpose: To identify the clinical features of MODY-GCK diabetes which we need to follow of this group of patients.Materials and methods: We examined 35 patients under the age of 18 years with impaired carbohydrate metabolism. Inclusion criteria were: diagnosed carbohydrate metabolism disorder or diabetes mellitus (DM), normal weight, family history of diabetes, no antibodies, normal or slightly decreased C-peptide level for at least 2 years, absence ...

We described a family in which MODY-GCK was detected in 6 people and its course varied.Materials and methods: The diagnosis of GCK-MODY was verified by the proband and his relatives on the basis of direct automatic sequencing and sequencing by Sanger.Results: Proband – a boy of 12 years, diabetes mellitus (DM) type 1 is diagnosed at the age of 11 years. He felt polydipsia, polyuria. Body weight was normal, he has not any disea...

Background: Growth hormone deficiency in conjunction with the function loss of other anterior pituitary hormones is called combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD). The most common congenital CPHD is caused by mutations in genes: PROP1, POU1F1, HESX1, LHX3, LHX4, OTX2, GLI2, and SOX3. POU1F1 mutations are extremely rare among the Indo-European ethnic type (1% of all cases of congenital hypopituitarism) and more common among the Turkic peoples (7.3%...