ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Diabetic cardiomyopathy is defined as myocardial dysfunction which is independent from any other ischemic, valvular or hypertensive etiology. It is a multifactorial condition caused mainly by a change in the myocardial structure leading sometimes to fibrosis especially in patients with poor diabetes control.Aim: To assess whether type 1 diabetic children and adolescents have early echocardiographic signs of...

Background: Feminising preocious pseudo-puberty in McCune Albright syndrome (MAS) and juvenile granulosa cell tumour (JGCT) arises from bilateral and unilateral estradiol hypersecretion respectively. GNAS mutations have been described in some cases of JGCT as well causing MAS.Aim: To describe a case in which MAS was evoked initially, but then progressed to JGCTCase: A girl aged 2 y...