ESPE Abstracts

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is accompanied by intracerebral complications from 0.3% to 1%. Cerebrovascular events account for 10% of intracerebral complications. Our aim is to present a case of symptomatic cerebral infarction as a serious complication of DKA and draw attention to the management of DKA treatment. A 3.5-years-old male patient was referred to our department with DKA for further evaluation and treatment. Before coming to our center, insulin and sodium bicarbonate ...

Background: False-negative results can occur an extremely high level of substrate at the assay system. This is called the ‘high-dose hook effect’.Case presentation: 14 year-old female patient was referred with short stature, amenorea and hirsutism. Height, weight and blood pressure were 140.5 cm (SDS:−3.5), 43.4 kg (SDS:−1.6) and 120/80 mmHg. She had stage 1 Tanner breast, stage 5 pubic hair and hirsutism (mFG scale: 28) with androi...

Background: WBS is a rare genetic disorder characterized by distinctive facial features, intellectual disability, cardiovascular anomalies, and infantile hypercalcemia.Objective and hypotheses: Majority of WBS cases occur sporadically, only five families with clinically confirmed WBS have been identified by molecular cytogenetic analysis. Here, we report on the three molecular cytogenetically confirmed familial WBS detected in a family with familial shor...

Objectives: Vitamin D deficiency is an important health problem in pregnant women and their infants in sunny countries. The present study evaluated serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) concentrations in pregnant women and in their newborns and determined the risk factors in LSES cities in Turkey.Methods: Ninety-seven pregnant women and their newborns were included in the study between December 2012 and February 2013. All of the pregnant women had irregu...

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the relation between the peak growth hormone (GH) levels on provocative tests and response to recombinant human GH (rhGH) therapy in patients with GH deficiency (GHD).Methods: This was a cross-sectional, single-center, and retrospective study. A total of 518 patients who received rhGH therapy under the age of 16 in the Endocrinology Clinic of Akdeniz University Hospital between 1997 and 20...

Objective: We aimed to examine the auxological findings of the girls diagnosed with idiopathic central precocious puberty (CPP) at the end of the Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs (GnRHa) treatment and to investigate the effect of related factors on the height gain of those patients.Methods: This study was designed as single-center, descriptive, cross-sectional retrospective study. A total of 43 patients who were di...

Introduction and Purpose: Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus must be extremely concerned with what they eat and their insulin dose as part of their treatment. Therefore, the risk of eating disorders increases in this patient group. This study, it was aimed to determine the disordered eating behaviors of patients with Type 1 DM and to evaluate the results of the general demographic characteristics, diabetes care behaviors, and quality of life scale that whi...