ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Graves’ disease (GD) is a leading cause of hyperthyroidism in all age groups. Clinical presentation, methods and overall goals of therapy can be variable in different age groups. We aimed to study the prevalence of GD, the attitude of treating physicians towards management preferences as well as patient response pattern amongst children and adolescents with GD in Saudi Arabia.Methods: A cross sectiona...

Introduction: Recombinant growth hormone (GH) is an effective treatment for short children who are born small for gestational age (SGA). Short children born SGA who fail to demonstrate catch-up growth by 2-4 years of age are candidates for GH treatment initiated to achieve catch-up growth to a normal height in early childhood, maintain a normal height gain throughout childhood, and achieve an adult height within the normal target range. However, some children ...

Introduction: The Saudi National Diabetes Registry focuses mainly on adult patients. In 2020, the National Guard Health Authority (NGHA) launched the Saudi Pediatric and Youth Diabetes Registry (SPYDR), for children and adolescents with diabetes. We report on the first data and the challenges we faced during SPYDR initiation.Methods: Patients were identified from the electronic medical records of the Saudi NGHA hospitals...