ESPE Abstracts

Background: Precocious puberty is defined as pubertal development that begins at an earlier age than expected; most paediatric endocrinology subspecialists use cutoff ages of 8 years for girls and 9 years for boys.Objective and hypotheses: We reported in this case, rare association between type 1 diabetes mellitus and precocious puberty.Method: We present a girl with type 1 diabetes developed at the age of 3 years, with good glycae...

Introduction: In girls, precocious puberty is defined as the sign of secondary sexual characteristics occurring before the age of 8 years in Caucasian girls. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a rare association with precocious puberty. We discuss through this case, the involvement of type 1 diabetes mellitus in the onset of early puberty from a review of the literature.Observation: We report the case of precocious puberty in a 6-year-old girl followed for T1D sin...

Background: If in European and American countries we have very clear statistics about growth in Cystic fibrosis (CF). It is not the same in the majority of African countries because it has long been considered as a very rare pathology there. Actually without newborn screening; CF is under-diagnosed and given the fatal nature of the disease, many patients are lost.Objective: describe the anthropometric parameters of infan...