ESPE Abstracts

Background: McCune–Albright syndrome (MAS) is a complex disorder characterized by the triad of fibrous dysplasia of multiple bones, café-au-lait skin macules and endocrinopathies.Objective and hypotheses: Long-term treatment of a boy with gigantism due to MAS.Method: Case report.Results: We present the clinical course of a now 14 years old boy with MAS and GH excess, clinical signs of precocious pub...

Background: We present a boy with classical adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and constantly increased 17-OH-progesterone (17-OH-P) values despite multiple dose adjustments of hydrocortisone up to 18 mg/m2 body surface and addition of fludrocortisone. After puberty, therapy was changed from hydrocortisone to prednisone without improvement of the 17-OH-P values. Non-compliance was suspected as cause of the inadequately controlled CAH. Alternatively, an atypical steroid metab...

Background: Hypoglycaemia represents a common issue in diabetic children, and the achievement of good metabolic control together with the avoidance of hypoglycemia remains a tightrope walk. As hypoglycaemia is not always recognised, data about hypoglycemia frequency are limited.Aims: We previously reported about nocturnal hypoglycaemia in diabetic children. This study now focusses on the frequency and duration of hypoglycemia at daytime and risk factors ...

Background: Hypoglycaemia is the most common and threatening complication in diabetic children. Nocturnal hypoglycaemia is mostly unrecognised and asymptomatic, but recurrent mild hypoglycaemia at night can lead to hypoglycaemia unawareness and reduced performance at daytime.Aims: To evaluate frequency and duration of nocturnal hypoglycaemia in type 1 diabetic children and to identify risk factors for such events.Patients/methods: ...

Background: Carbohydrate counting is essential in diabetes management to match insulin doses to carbohydrate intake. Though recommendations concerning macronutritient composition exist (ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2022: Nutritional management in children and adolescents with diabetes), fat and protein intake is usually not calculated. Therefore, little is known if these recommendations are followed. Lower carbohydrate intake is reported to be ...

Background: Copeptin is a surrogate marker for arginine vasopressin (AVP) release in response to hyperosmolal stimuli such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). We aimed to characterize the temporal course (kinetics) of serum osmolality and copeptin during rehydration and insulin therapy in children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and DKA, and the relationship between both (dynamics).Methods: An observational multi-center study was...

Objectives: Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) has been associated with lower HbA1c. To explore whether CSII initiation leads to HbA1c improvement in each individual with type-1 diabetes and to identify co-variates which might influence change in HbA1c.Methods: 5,040 pediatric type-1-diabetes subjects (δ20 y, 49% boys, median age at diabetes onset [Q1;Q3]: 5.9 [3.5;8.4] years) ...

Introduction: Since 2000 understanding of biology of sex development increased tremendously thanks to genetic research. This lead to new classification for persons with disorders/differences of sex development (DSD) based on genetics, and guidelines from the UK recommend revising medical care for persons with DSD by setting up interdisciplinary DSD teams. In Switzerland, persons with DSD asked for better care, stimulating the Swiss National Ethics Commission in 2012 to recomme...

Background: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a frequent complication of type 1 diabetes (T1D), is characterized by hyperosmolar hypovolemia. The response of water-regulating hormones to DKA treatment in children is not well known. While arginine vasopressin (AVP) is thought to respond to changes in osmolality, aldosterone and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) are expected to respond to volume changes (dehydration and overhydration, respectively). The objective of t...

Objective: This feasibility study aimed to investigate the anabolic effect of insulin on metabolites captured in exhaled breath during acute diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) for a better pathophysiological understanding.Research Design and Methods: Children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) with DKA (n=5) and without DKA (n=7) and children with epilepsy without ketogenic diet (n=18) were re...