ESPE Abstracts

Background: Mucormycosis which is an invasive fungal disease and commonly seen in immunocompromised patients is very rare in the diabetic children.Case report: We present a case with type 1 diabetes with mucormycosis. A 14-year-old male patient was referred to our department due to polyuria, polydipsia, weight loss, headache, altered consciousness, fever, and rhinorrhea. After the diabetic ketoasidosis treatment, left facial paralysis, anisocoria, and pt...

Background: Wolcott-Rallison syndrome (WRS) is a rare, autosomal recessive disease and characterized by early-onset diabetes, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, short stature, osteopenia, acute liver failure, and neurological deficit. It results from mutation in a gene of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-α kinase 3 (EIF2AK3).Objective and hypotheses: We report two WRS patients diagnosed in infantile period.Me...