ESPE Abstracts

Background: A positive relationship between an individual surgeon’s operative volume and clinical outcomes after paediatric and adult thyroidectomy is well-established. The impact of a hospital’s paediatric operative volume on surgical outcomes and healthcare utilisation, however, are infrequently reported. We investigated associations between hospital volume and healthcare utilisation outcomes following paediatric thyroidectomy in Canada’s larg...

Introduction: Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare, autosomal recessive ciliopathy, with a prevalence of 1 in 100,000 – 160,000, caused by mutations across >20 known genes encoding for proteins responsible for the integrity of the primary cilium/basal body complex. Endocrinopathies associated with BBS include hypogonadism, hypothyroidism, and the metabolic complications of obesity. The endocrine characteristics of a large adult BBS cohort have been r...