ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen an increase in consultations for Precocious puberty (PP) and accelerated puberty.Aim: To assess the frequency of PP and its progression before and during the pandemic.Materials and Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the patients's medical records referred to a Paediatric Endocrinolgy Unit between April 2018-March 2021...

Background: Aortic dilation (AD) occurs in Turner syndrome (TS) increasing the risk of aortic dissection at all ages. There are no current guidelines on what specific aortic diameter measurement should provoke concern in pediatric TS. Because of their small stature, an aortic size index (ASI) has been proposed to normalize the ascending aorta (AA) to body size in young adults’ with TS. However, a more reliable index has been also proposed: the ratio of vascular diameter t...

Background: Disorders of sex development (DSD) are those congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical. 45,X/46,XY mosaicism results in a large clinical spectrum of DSD including from female patients with Turner’s syndrome to normal appearing males.Objective and hypotheses: The main aim of this study is to review the clinical and gonad histological findings in a cohort of chromosomal DSD patients f...