ESPE Abstracts

Growth retardation is frequent reason of consultation in endocrinology department.Its investigation is guided by weight and statural curves, as well as growth velocity, the breakage of which should alert us to an acquired tumoral pathology.The etiologies are grouped into pathological and common etiologies.We report the results of study of 156 children presenting with short stature in the endocrinology department of Beni Messous where we found that the proportion of boys to gir...

Introduction: Noonan syndrome (NS) is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder with an estimated incidence of 1/2500. Diagnosis is mainly clinical, with the association of dysmorphic signs, cardiac malformations and delayed growth.Observation: The cases involved 2 boys and 2 girls. The average age at diagnosis was 9.5 years, with a characteristic facial dysmorphia in 100% of cases, cardiac malformations such as pulmona...

Objectives: childhood growth influences their social and psychological behavior, and abnormal growth may reflect underlying pathological etiologies. We aim to study etiologies and carachteristics of short stature in children in endocrinology department.Methods: 160 children ranging from 2 years to 21 years with short stature were retrospectively studied.Results: In this study, a di...