ESPE Abstracts

Background: Nutritional rickets continues to be an important health care problem. Its incidence has decreased in our country following the free vitamin D distribution that started in 2005 but it continues to stay on the agenda as a preventable disorder.Aim: Our aim was to evaluate patients diagnosed with nutritional rickets following the vitamin D supplementation program.Method: We evaluated patients diagnosed with nutritional rick...

Context: Inherited mitochondrial diseases are a group of disorders in which redox homeostasis is disrupted. The adrenal gland is particularly susceptible to oxidative stress associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. Furthermore, all adrenal steroid hormones are synthesized within the mitochondria. Therefore, novel genetic mitochondrial diseases emerge as rare causes of primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI).Objective: Char...