ESPE Abstracts

Objective: Vitamin deficient (VDD) rickets can manifest with skeletal (hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, elevated serum alkaline phosphatase and defective bone mineralization) and extra-skeletal findings. There are certain number of case reports and limited number of small scale studies reporting dilated cardiomyopathy due to VDD rickets.The aim of the present study is to evaluate the clinical, biochemical and echocardiographic features of...

Objective: The systemic form pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 (PHA1) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized with defective sodium transport in many organ systems including kidney, lungs, colon, sweat glands and salivary glands. Homozygous or compound heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in the genes encoding amiloride sensitive epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) account for genetic causes of systemic PHA1.Case 1: Male patient presented with vomi...