ESPE Abstracts

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...

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"...