hrp0084p3-1125 | Pituitary | ESPE2015

Combined Pituitary Hormone Deficiency

Kot Karolina , Moszczynska Elzbieta , Szalecki Mieczyslaw

Background: Combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD) may be congenital or acquired disorder, which affects more than one hormonal axis. Congenital hipopituitarism includes heterogenic group of disturbances. It may be result of mutations or deletions in genes for signaling and transcription factors responsible for pituitary development. The disorder might affect one or multiple family members. The age of appearance and intensity of the first hormone deficiency symptoms may ...

hrp0086p2-p54 | Adrenal P2 | ESPE2016

Hyperandrogenism in a 12-year Old Girl with a Congenital Porto-Systemic Shunt and Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis

Danko Mikolaj , Kot Karolina , Szalecki Mieczysław , Moszczynska Elzbieta , Malinowska Anna

Background: Hyperandrogenism in children is associated with excessive adrenal or gonadal androgens secretion. The most common causes of androgens hypersecretion are PCOS, adrenal tumors, Cushing’s syndrome, CAH, and gonadal virilizing tumors. Within the last 15 years single case-reports of hyperandrogenism in female patients with congenital porto-systemic shunts were described in literature. The mechanism of such coincidence is unknown but the role of hyperinsulinism, imp...