ESPE Abstracts

Background: Diagnosis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is delayed in developing countries and children are long exposed to high levels of androgens. These androgens have deleterious effect on heart.Objective and hypotheses: Evaluate cardiac function of children followed for CAH and compared it to a group of healthy children.Method: We carried out a case-control study, 1 case for 2 controls matched for age and genotypic sex, ...

Introduction: Variation of sex development are rare diseases with diverse aetiologies. Ovotesticular diseases are not well described in Sub Saharan countries, justifying the present study with aimto draw the clinical and biomolecular aspects in a paediatric center.Methods: We did an observational study of patients followed in the Mother and child center of the Yaounde. Ovo testicular DSD was diagnosed on clinical, morpho...