ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by enzyme deficiencies in the adrenal steroidogenesis pathway. The most common type is 21 hydroxylase deficiency and is divided into two groups as classical and nonclassical type. 75% of the classical type of cases is salt-losing type, and cortisol and aldosterone deficiency symptoms occur in patients. Female cases presented with ambiguus genitalia due to hyperand...

Introduction: Graves' disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in children with autoimmune thyroid disease. Clinically, goiter, tachycardia, restlessness, craniosinostosis, hyperactivity, growth retardation, diarrhea may occur.Graves' disease is rare under 4 years of age. Treatment options include antithyroid therapy, surgery, and radioiodine therapy. The most commonly used antithyroid therapy is methimazole and has serious side effects such...

Introduction: GLIS3 is a member of the GLI-similar zinc finger protein family encoding for a nuclear protein that maps to chromosome 9p24.3-p23. Mutations in GLIS3 have been reported in association with Neonatal diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism syndrome. We aimed to present a case of congenital diabetes mellitus congenital hypothyroidism associated with a newly identified mutation in the GLIS-3 gene.Case Report: A se...

Background: Peripheral precocious puberty (GnRH independed): precocious development of secondary sexual characteristics may also be caused by mechanisms that do not involve activation of pulsatile GnRH secretion. Familial male-limited precocious puberty, also known testotoxicosis is a rare dominant form of gonadotropin independent precocity caused by constitutively activating mutations of the human LH choriogonadotropin receptor (LHCGR). If do not treat with appropriate drugs ...

Background: 5α-Reductase is an enzyme that converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in peripheral tissues. DHT is responsible for the differentiation of male external genitalia. Mutations in the 5α-steroid reductase type 2 gene (SRD5A2) result in incomplete masculinisation of the external genitalia in subjects with a 46,XY karyotype. The clinical spectrum of a 46,XY individual with 5α-reductase deficiency at birth can range from complete femal...

Background: Pancreas transcription factor-1 alpha (PTF1A), encoded by the PTF1A gene, is a beta helix loop(bHLH) protein which involved in the development of the pancreas and cerebellar neurogenesis. Although mutations of PTF1A cause permanent neonatal diabetes(PNDM), pancreas agenesis and cerebellar agenesis, PTF1A enhancer mutations reported causing PNDM and isolated pancreas agenesis. In the present study, we evaluate the phenotyp...

Background: Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH) is characterised by failure of initiation or maintenance of puberty due to insufficient gonadotropin release, which is not associated with anosmia/hyposmia.Objective and hypotheses: The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of causative mutations in an hereditary form of IHH.Method: In this prospective collaborative study, families with more than one aff...