ESPE Abstracts

Background: In recent years families, especially in the children’s growth and development, often use alternative treatments as growing more healthy individuals.Objective and hypotheses: The purpose of the present study was to examine the hormonal, histomorphometric and immunohistochemical effects of Royal Jelly (RJ), which was a growth supplement commonly used by parents for their children, on growth plate of young rats.Method...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the clinical utility of fat mass percentage (%fat) and estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR) for predicting MetS in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D).Method: We conducted a descriptive, cross sectional study including T1D patients between 8–18 years of age. Modified criteria of IDF, WHO and NCEP were used to determine the prevalence of MetS. eGDR, a validated ...

Background: Premature adrenarche (PA) is defined as the appearance of pubic and/or axillary hair before 8 years in girls and 9 years in boys.Objective and hypotheses: We aimed to evaluate the anthropometric measures, hormonal values of children with PA at time of diagnosis, distinguishing the patients with late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia and to analyse the components of insulin resistance, obesity, hyperlipidemia, metabolic syndrome, menstrual ...

Aım: İn this prospective planned study, it was aimed to study relationship between vitamin D level and vitamin D receptor gene polimorphism in patients with type l DM aged 0–18 years old.Methods and materials: We enrolled total 165 children in which 101 new and old diagnosed to WHO criterias TIDM patients from 0–18 years old and 64 chıldren as control group who were matched with gender and age. İn all cases serum Ca, P, PT...

Introduction: 46,XY disorder of sexual development can cause clinical spectrum varying from complete female phenotype to isolated micropenis. However, the most common reasons are androgen synthesis and resistance, choromosome abnormalities, testicular dysgenesis, steroid synthesis defects, it is usually idiopathic. The accurate and differential diagnosis is crucial in respect of treatment, monitoring, sex determination, surgical correction. Moreover, it sometimes can be medica...

Background: Accurate and differential diagnosis of preococious puberty (PP) have some important challenges. Many parameters have used to diagnose pubertal diseases so far. However LH-RH stimulation test is considered as a gold standard procedure, ıt has some difficulties in practise.Objective: We aimed to set a newly proposed clinical and laboratory finding-based diagnostic scoring in the differential diagnosis of preoccious puberty and premature te...

Introduction: GnRH analogues common used in precocious puberty are highly effective agents. The drug dose and injection frequency should be designed for each case. However these agents are common well tolerated, some rare adverse effects may be occur. We present a case of frequent leuprolid acetate injections-related sterile abscess.Case: The case was 16-month-old boy. He had rapid growth, big penis, and excessive pubic hair. These symptoms have appeared...

Objective: There have no been studies enough about thyroid volumes of obese and adolescent children. In this study, we purposed comparing of thyroid volumes in respect of anthropometric, biochemical, metabolic parameters in following groups: Overweight, obese, morbid obese, and healthy children.Method: Two groups were compared: The first group consisted of 190 children whose BMIs are above the 85th percentile. The second group was 90 children with normal...

Autosomal dominant pseudohypoparathyroidism type-Ib is characterized by renal parathyroid hormone resistance, with resultant hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia. This disorder is associated with an isolated loss of methylation at GNAS exon A/B and most patients carry maternal microdeletions in the neighboring STX16 gene. The shortest deletion overlap is a 1.2-kb region spanning STX16 exon 4 and thought to harbor a cis-acting element regulating GNAS A/B methylation. However, abl...

Introduction: In cases of precocious puberty, an important factor in making treatment decisions is when adult height estimates based on bone age (BA) determination are behind midparental height. In Turkey, clinicians often use the Greulich Pyle (GP) atlas to determine BA, which can lead to significant differences between assessors. The aim of this study was to compare estimated adult height (EAH) calculations based on BA determined by the automated BoneXpert m...