ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: ‘Receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 2 (ROR2)’ is a transmembrane protein tyrosine kinase encoded by the ROR2 gene. Pathogenic mutations in ROR2 are involved in two diseases: biallelic loss-of-function mutations in Robinow syndrome and monoallelic gain-of-function mutations in brachydactyly type B1. Recently, monoallelic loss-of-function mutations in ROR2 have been reported as a cause of isolated short stature. Here we repor...

Osteogenesis imperfecta is a hereditary connective tissue disease developing based on the structure or synthesis impairment of type 1 collagen and proceeding with diffuse osteoporosis, fragility, fractures and deformities in bones. Bone mineral density can be at normal or even high levels particularly especially in type I and XIII. Here, a 13 year-old boy diagnosed as osteogenesis imperfecta with normal bone mineral density was presented and treatment results were shared. A 13...

Introduction: Vitamin D resistant rickets type II (VDDR-II) is a disease with a difficult treatment developed as a result of mutations in VDR gene. Despite high dose active vitamin D and oral calcium treatments, sufficient recovery cannot be achieved mostly. Successful results with intravenous calcium infusion that is an alternative treatment have been reported; however, serious restrictions and complications such as hospitalization, catheter infection, thrombosis, skin necros...

Introduction: It has been suggested that adipokines found in breast milk and may be effective in early growth of infants.Purpose: It was aimed to evaluate the relationship between total ghrelin (TGh) and nesfatin-1 levels in breast milk with anthropometric measurements in the first 4 months of life in infants with small for gestation age (SGA) showing fast growth pattern.Method: A total of 20 SGA and 20 control infants with appropr...

Introduction: BMI is claimed to be unreliable in the determination of body fat rate and cardiometabolic risk. Troublesome and reproducibility low measurements like waist circumference, waist circumference/height rate are used in the evaluation of cardiometabolic risk. Triponderal mass index (TMI; weight/height3), however, is suggested to be superior BMI in determining body fat rate and obesity.Purpose: In this study TMI’s relationship wit...

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the relation between the peak growth hormone (GH) levels on provocative tests and response to recombinant human GH (rhGH) therapy in patients with GH deficiency (GHD).Methods: This was a cross-sectional, single-center, and retrospective study. A total of 518 patients who received rhGH therapy under the age of 16 in the Endocrinology Clinic of Akdeniz University Hospital between 1997 and 20...

Objective: We aimed to examine the auxological findings of the girls diagnosed with idiopathic central precocious puberty (CPP) at the end of the Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs (GnRHa) treatment and to investigate the effect of related factors on the height gain of those patients.Methods: This study was designed as single-center, descriptive, cross-sectional retrospective study. A total of 43 patients who were di...

Objective: Monosomy 18q and 10p duplications rare chromosomal disorders that are caused by deletion of a part of the long arm (q) of chromosome 18 and duplication of genetic material on the short arm (P) of chromosome 10 respectively. In both disorders the phenotype is highly variable and; includes short stature, developmental delay, hypotonia, and facial dysmorphic features. Also, genital abnormalities could occur in both disorders. Genital abnormalities (cry...

Introduction: Differential diagnosis of thyroid hormone resistance (beta) and TSHoma should be made in patients with high free thyroxine (f-T4) and free triiodothyronine (f-T3) and non-suppressed thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. The aim of this study was to present the results of etiological research in a patient with Down syndrome who was clinically euthyroid and had high levels of f-T4, f-T3, normal TSH levels.Case</st...

Introduction: Parathormone-related peptide (PTHrP) regulates tissue calcium concentration by acting in paracrine or autocrine ways. It is mostly responsible for paraneoplastic hypercalcemia seen in adults. Paraneoplastic hypercalcemia in children is rarely reported in cancers such as ALL, medulloblastoma and hepatoblastoma (0.4–0.7%). In experimental studies, PTHrP is shown to be synthesized apart from neoplastic tissue (glomerulus and tubule cells).<p class="abstext"...