ESPE Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate growth in patients with classical CAH.Patients and methods: Retrospective, longitudinal and multicentric study of patients with classical CAH due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency who had achieved adult height(AH).Excluded: boys with simple virilising forms(SV)>1-year at diagnosis. Normative Control Group:Millennials Longitudinal Growth Study(2018). According t...

Background: The pituitary set-point for TSH synthesis and secretion is known to be an individual parameter with a strong genetic influence. Type II iodothyronine deiodinase is a pituitary enzyme involved in local deiodination of T4 and negative feed-back loop for TSH secretion. Defects in DIO2 have not been reported in humans; however, Dio2 knockout mouse has pituitary resistance to T4 with elevated TSH, T4 and TSH/T4 ratio, with nor...

Background: The Spanish Registry PUBERE was created (2007) with 53 hospitals.Objective and hypotheses: i) To determine the chronological age (CA) and bone (BA) at GnRH analogue withdrawal; ii) to analyze the age at menarche and time elapsed after stopping treatment; and iii) to know adult height data.Method: Patients with central precocious puberty (CPP) born after 1992, diagnosed before 8 years in girls, with BA/CA >1 year and...