ESPE Abstracts

Background: Patients with homozygous and compound heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) have markedly elevated plasma LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) from birth. If untreated, patients develop cardiovascular atherosclerosis resulting in death before the second decade of life. Medication and apheresis are only partially effective in reducing LDL-C levels, and do not significantly improve the prognosis. Liver transplantation (LT) can nearly normalize the cholesterol metabolism...

MIRAGE syndrome is characterized by myelodysplasia, infection, restriction of growth, adrenal hypoplasia, genital phenotypes and enteropathy. It was established in 2016 as a new syndromic disorder caused by a gain-of-function mutation in the SAMD9 gene, which encodes a protein that suppresses cell proliferation. Due to the poor life prognosis, there are few reports on the long-term survival. Therefore, we herein report the clinical course of a 24-year-old male patient...

Background: Late preterm birth (defined as infants born between 34 and 36 weeks of gestational age) is increasing worldwide. Their postnatal growth has not been fully investigated.Objective and hypotheses: To identify the characteristics of postnatal growth and biochemical markers in late preterm infants.Method: Among 2014 children in the birth cohort study conducted from 2010, 51 children were born late preterm with birth weight a...