ESPE Abstracts

Background: Graves' disease is a rare autoimmune disorder in children. Its incidence is 0.1/100,000 person-years in young children and 3/100,000 person-years in adolescents. It is related to the production of TSH-stimulating autoantibodies occurring on a particular genetic predisposition. The particularity of Graves' disease in children is the risk of relapse after medical treatment, which is more frequent than in adults with a frequency of around 30...

Background: Clinical spectrum of 46 XY DSD is characterized by a greatest diversity. Atypical sex development can occur through different steps of testicular differentiation. Etiologies of 46 XY DSD are termed gonadal dysgenesis, hormonal dysfunction and action. Its global incidence is unknown but the most common presentation, hypospadias, is understood to occur in 1 in 125 male births, and complete androgen insensitivity has an incidence of 1:20,000 people.</...