ESPE Abstracts

Background: Nutritional rickets (NR) is the most common growing bone disease, and vitamin D deficiency (VDD) may predispose to other diseases (diabetes mellitus, cancer, and multiple sclerosis). Maternal VDD and exclusive breastfeeding without supplementation are the most frecuent causes of NR in the neonate. VDD is still a problem in Europe. There are few reports of maternal hypovitaminosis D and rickets in bottle-fed infants during early infancy. We report a case of Nutritio...

Background: Monitoring of thyroid function in neonates born from mothers affected by autoinmune thyroid disease is not perfectly established. The influence of etiology of maternal disease, maternal thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPOAb) and l-thyroxine therapy during pregnancy on neonatal thyroid function were also investigated.Method: 194 term neonates were tested for thyroid function by measurement of free thyroxine (FT4</s...

Background: Sotos syndrome is characterized by overgrowth. The four mayor criteria for diagnosis are: overgrowth (accelerated bone age), macrocephaly, characteristic facial features and developmental delay. They can also present escoliosis, heart or genitourinary disease, seizures, hypotonia, cerebral malformations, feeding difficulties, hearing loss and a greater risk of tumours.Case report: A 10 months old girl was referred for overgrowth. BW and BL wa...