ESPE Abstracts

Background: Young adult patients with childhood-onset GH deficiency (GHD) whose GH replacement therapy (GHRT) is discontinued exhibit negative metabolic and physiological effects, reversible through GHRT.Objective and hypotheses: To report the characteristics and 5-year GHRT in adults with childhood-onset GHD.Method: Analysis of the subgroup of adults with childhood-onset GHD included between March 2003 and October 2006 in KIMS. In...

Background: Twenty-three national healthcare networks for rare diseases were identified in 2014 as part of the French scheme on rare diseases. The rare endocrine disease national healthcare network FIRENDO (www.firendo.fr) includes six centers of reference with complementary fields of expertise certified between 2005 and 2006, 30 centers of competence covering all French regions, 18 research and 37 diagnostic laboratories, 5 national learned...