ESPE Abstracts

Background: The SGLT2 (Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2) protein is responsible for the majority of glucose reabsorption in the proximal tubule. Mutations in SLC5A2, encoding SGLT2, have been first described in 2002, leading to familial renal glucosuria (FRG). Herein we describe the clinical course of an 11-year-old boy in whom a compound heterozygous SLC5A2-mutation was detected, who presented with glucosuria and vomiting with a suspected diagnosis of diabetes....

Cowden syndrome (CS) is a cancer predisposition syndrome. The clinical hallmarks of CS are macrocephaly and mucocutaneous lesions. Several tumor types have been described, mostly malignancies of the breast, thyroid, endometrium, kidney and colorectum. The age of onset is extremely variable. So far, only two case reports of children with ovarian tumors in the context of CS have been published, a granulosa cell tumor of a 16-year-old girl (Smpokou et al. 2014) and a bilateral en...