ESPE Abstracts

Background: We investigate the efficacy and safety of two different treatments which have not been evaluated in peri-puberty boys with HH.Objective and hypotheses: To assess the effectiveness and safety of pulsatile GnRH or hCG treatment in adolescent boys with hypogonadotropic hypogonadodism.Method: 12 patients received 8–10 μg of GnRH, subcutaneously injected every 90 min using a pump. Another 22 patients received hCG, ...

Objective: To report the clinical characteristics, diagnosis, treatment and genetic analysis of a case of X-linked acrogigantism(X-LAG).Methods: The clinical information of a 4-year-old girl due to “growth acceleration for 2.5 years, breast overflow for 3 months, accompanied by intermittent convulsions twice” was retrospectively reported, and peripheral blood DNA was collected for whole exome sequencing and e...

Objective: To explore the clinical features and the genetic cause of a multiple malformation patient with short stature.Methods: The clinical data was collected in Beijing Children’s Hospital in November 2017. The disease-causing variant was identified using exome sequencing and confirmed with Sanger sequencing. Related literature was searched from Wanfang and Pubmed databases using the key word of ‘PORCN gene’ to identify the clinical fea...