ESPE Abstracts

Background: Growth Hormone (GH) therapy has a positive effect on many parameters including metabolic and physiologic functions as well as its effect on growth. It has also been shown that GH therapy exerts a significant effect on cardiac morphology and function as evidenced by echocardiographic findings.Aim: To investigate left and right ventricle (LV, RV) diastolic function by Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in pre-pubertal growth hormone deficient (GHD) c...

Background: Controversial data on ghrelin and leptin concentrations in patients with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) have been published. Little has addressed the correlation between Ghrelin and leptin with cardiac functions in patients with GHD.Aim: To investigate the effect of one year Growth hormone (GH) therapy on serum levels of ghrelin and leptin in children with GHD and to study their correlations with cardiac functions and dimensions in patients ...

Background: The etiology of bone disease in thalassemic patients is multifactorial. Factors such as hormonal deficiency (especially gonadal failure), bone marrow expansion, increased iron stores, desferioxamine toxicity, calcium, and vitamin D deficiency seem to have a serious impact on impaired bone metabolism in this disease.Objectives: To estimate the frequency of calcium homeostasis abnormalities in adolescent thalassemic patients, and to investigate...

Background and Aim: Vitamin D plays a crucial role in skeletal and extra-skeletal physiology. It is essential for growth, development and health. It works as a paracrine and autocrine signaling molecule that affects nearly all systems in the body. Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is prevalent in many countries in all age groups, and may be overlooked due to the variable clinical presentations according to age. This study was conducted to assess vitamin D status amon...

45,X/47,XYY mosaicism is quite rare, and, like 45,X/46,XY, it can be associated with mixed gonadal dysgenesis, Turner syndrome or apparently normal male/female phenotype. An infant aged 16 days, born full-term via spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 32 year-old G1P1 woman. His pregnancy and perinatal period were both uncomplicated except for maternal long QT syndrome. There was third degree cousin consanguinity between the parents. There was no any virilizing drug use and no mat...

Background: Although the clinical presentations of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) have been studied in Saudi children, the literature review revealed no molecular report of 21-hydroxylase was published.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of this study was to determine the pattern of CYP21A2 gene-mutations of CAH in Saudi children.Method: Between January 2011 and March 2014 at King Fahad Military Complex, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, ...