ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Micropenis is defined as an anatomically correct penis that is abnormally short due to a defect in testosterone secretion or action. The length of the stretched penis compared to reference tables such as the Schönefeld curve is the best diagnostic criterion. Size less than -2.5 Standard Deviations (SD) defines micropenis. When the etiological assessment of micropenis does not reveal any abnormality, the diagnosis of idiopathic micropenis is retained. Materi...

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of autosomal recessively inherited disorders of various enzymes participating in the adrenal steroidogenesi. 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD) is the most common type of CAH (90–95%). Less frequent types of CAH are 11β-hydroxylase deficiency (up to 8% of cases), 17α-hydroxylase deficiency, 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency, P450 oxidoreductase deficiency and StAR defici...

Introduction: Precocious puberty is a common problem affecting up to 29 per 100,000 girls per year. It is defined as the development of secondary sexual features, at a younger age than the accepted lower limits for age of onset of puberty, namely 8 years in girls and 9.5years in boys. We report the case of a precocious puberty in an 8-year-old and 11months girl with diabetes mellitus type 1 and autoimmune hypothyroidism followed-up in the department of Endocri...

Introduction: Precocious puberty is defined by the apparition of secondary sexual features before the age of 8 years in girls and 9.5 years in boys. Central precocious puberty (CPP) results from a premature activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. The aim of this study is to review the clinical, etiologic and therapeutic features of this entity.Patients and methods: It is a descriptive retrospective study including 7 patien...

Introduction: Type 1 diabetes is frequently accompanied by other autoimmune diseases that can sometimes be integrated into autoimmune polyendocrinopathies. Through this work, we sought to describe the association of autoimmune diseases with type 1 diabetes in children.Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective and descriptive study, including 354 type 1 diabetic patients hospitalized in the Department of Endocrinology...

Keywords: short stature, underweight, overweight, obesityIntroduction: Natural growth is an important indicator of health in childhood. Growth retardation can result from systemic and endocrine diseases or poor diet. Being overweight or obese in childhood increases the risk of morbidity and mortality in adulthood. This study, the first of its kind in Morocco, was conducted to compare the prevalence of growth disorders am...

Keywords: Basal ganglia calcifications, hypoparathyroidism, farh's diseaseIntroduction: Fahr syndrome is a rare anatomical-clinical entity, defined radiologically by the presence of bilateral, symmetrical, non-arteriosclerotic triatopallidodentate calcifications. Its diagnosis is radiological, and must be distinguished from Fahr's disease, which corresponds to the presence of calcifications without abnormalitie...

Introduction: We refer to precocious puberty when signs of puberty appear early: before the age of 8 in females and before the age of 9.5 in males. The objective of our study is to evaluate the interest of the LHRH test in the exploration of early puberty.Materials and Methods: A retrospective descriptive study including 19 cases who presented with signs of precocious puberty. A clinical and hormonal evaluation was perfo...

Introduction: In medical practice, sex assignment at birth depends primarily on the appearance of the external genitalia, which development begins as early as the fetal period and is largely dependent on dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Any discordance between the chromosomal, gonadal or anatomical sexes can lead to a disorder of sex development (DSD). 5 alpha-reductase 2 (5aRD2) deficiency is a very uncommon autosomal recessive genetic disorder that falls into the DSD 46 XY group, ...

Introduction: Since its introduction in the 1970s, insulin pump therapy became more and more recommended in patients with type 1 diabetes, in order to achieve and maintain an optimal glycemic control, by mimicking the physiological release of insulin through continuous infusion. The aim of our study was to determine the effectiveness of insulin pump therapy in improving the metabolic control in children with type 1 diabetes.Patients and ...