ESPE Abstracts

Background: The prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents has increased significantly worldwide with an alarming rise of its co-morbidities. The excess of visceral adipose tissue is associated with hypertension, prothrombotic and pro-inflammatory states leading to cardiovascular diseases.Aim of the study: To find possible associations between visceral obesity and plasma fibrinogen, as one of the cardiovascular risk factors, in obese children....

Timely recognition and treatment of neonatal hypoglycemia are important because of the potential for adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. One of the major problems in infants born following a pregnancy complicated by diabetes is hypoglycemia. In addition, hypoglycemia occurs in infants of non-diabetic mothers. We conducted a retrospective cohort study including all infants who had hypoglycemia during the first day of life, between 1-9-2017 and 31-8-2020. We studied the relatio...

Background: Leprechaunism (Donohue syndrome) is an extremely rare AR disease that presents with special phenotypic features including severe type of insulin resistance with high mortality in infancy.Case study: R 3 ½ months old Syrian girl, born at 35 weeks of gestation with Asymmetrical IUGR. She developed hyperglycemia from day1 of life >150 mg/dl (350+/−60 mg/dl) and her serum insulin and c-peptide were very high (772 uU/ml and 29.9 ng/...

The benefits of surgical repair on long term growth in children with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) have been variable. Surgery undertaken beyond infancy has often been associated with a residual degree of growth impairment. Primary repair of during early infancy was adopted in many centres, if clinically indicated. We examined the effects of full early surgical correction of TOF on linear growth for 2 years postoperatively. Anthropometric data of infants with TOF before and after ...

The arterial switch operation (ASO) represents a remarkable success in the treatment of cyanotic congenital heart disease, with survival rates approaching 100%. The effect of infantile deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and hypoxia on post-operative linear growth is not studied. Growth data were recorded and analyzed in 12 infants with d-TGA who underwent switch operation (anatomical correction) in the early neonatal period for 18 months.Results...

Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) - related hepatopathy is not uncommon and tends to be more prevalent among children with poor glycemic control. Recent studies suggest that fatty liver disease may be more common in T1DM than previously thought.Aim: The aim of this work was to determine the frequency of hepatopathy in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus attended diabetes clinic at Alexandria university children’s hospital (AUCH) and it&...

Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a complex metabolic disorder typically diagnosed in childhood and characterized by insufficient insulin production. Diabetic complications are still a major concern as they constitute the main cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients despite the advances in T1DM treatment. Long-term complications of diabetes include retinopathy with potential loss of vision; nephropathy leading to renal failure; peripheral neuropathy ...

Sclerosteosis is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by progressive skeletal overgrowth and increased bone density. Loss of function mutations of SOST gene, coding for sclerostin, are linked to sclerosteosis. Sclerostin plays a critical role inhibiting osteoblastic activity and preventing excessive bone formation by antagonizing the Wnt signaling pathway. Sclerosteosis patients are often tall and have excessive body weight due to high skeletal weight. To...

Background: Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) is increasing in childhood especially among females and South-Asians.Objective: To report outcomes from a national cohort of children and adolescents with T2DM 1-year post diagnosis.Subjects and Methods: Clinician reported 1-year follow-up of a cohort of children (<17 years) with T2DM reported through British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (April 2015–April 2016). This followed the same met...

Introduction: Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is one of the most frequent glomerular pathological conditions seen in children. The International Study of Kidney Disease in Childhood (ISKDC) reported that 84.5% of children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) had minimal-change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS). Complications of INS may arise as a result of the disease itself or secondary to treatment. The chief complications of NS are infection, followed by thromboembolic events. Other di...