ESPE Abstracts

Congenital panhypopituitarism is a rare cause of impaired metabolism in early infancy. Many guidelines for neonatal hypoglycemia include evaluation of pituitary hormones, but other parameters of metabolism (either mineral, lipid or hepatic) are rarely taken into consideration and don’t regularly suggest hormonal investigation. Therefore the diagnosis of multiple hormonal deficiencies is often late at that age. Although many reports point to the impaired bile discharge, a...

Introduction: Disorders of sexual development (DSD) include etiologically heterogeneous group of patients that have disorders of genital development. Consensus guidelines that are currently used, divide all DSD in three main groups - sex chromosomal abnormalities, XX or XY DSD, all divided in subgroups in dependence of genetics and hormonal tests. The phenotypic spectrum of external genitalia, gonads and development of Wolfian and Mulerian duct derivatives var...