ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a serious risk to individuals with adrenal insufficiency (AI), making them more susceptible to infections and COVID-19 infection-induced adrenal crises, impacting their life expectancy and quality of life (QoL).Methods: We conducted a retrospective case-control study at Severance Children's Hospital in South Korea from June 2019 to December 2022. We enrolled 94...

Background: Congenital hypothyroidism is the most common neonatal metabolic disorder and detected at a rate of 1 in 3000 to 4000 live births. Compared to congenital hypothyroidism caused by defects in thyroid development leading to thyroid dysgenesis, thyroid dyshormonogenesis has tendency to be detected at older age and its clinical manifestations are individually different. Thus, to evaluate exact causes and predict clinical course for congenital thyroid dys...

Introduction: Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is a genetically heterogeneous group of monogenic endocrine disorders which is inherited as autosomal dominant pattern and characterized pancreatic β-cell dysfunction. It has been estimated to represent around 1% to 6% of all diabetes. The hallmark of MODY is that the onset is before 25 years of age and inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. Generally, there are several known genes that cause M...

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Introduction: 5-α-Reductase type 2 deficiency (5αRD2) is 46,XY disorder of sex development that requires androgen treatment for normal male external genitalia development. Despite concerns regarding precocious puberty and stunted growth associated with androgen treatment, limited research has been conducted on its effects on individuals with 5αRD2. The present study aims to evaluate the impact of androgen treatment on bone age (BA) and height...

Background: Recombinant human GH (rhGH) therapy requires daily s.c. injections, this inconvenient treatment regimen results to poor compliance of the patient. Thus, to improve patient compliance, long-acting rhGH products including various protein fusion techniques have been in development during past 15 years.Objective and hypotheses: In this study, we describe the pharmacokinetics and efficacy of a novel long-acting GH using Fc fusion protein (rhGH-Fc)...

Introduction: Chronic diseases such as type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) may alter linear growth, but previous reports regarding growth in children with T1DM has been inconsistent. This study aims to investigate height and growth velocity of T1DM patients after diagnosis of diabetes and whether they are affected by various factors.Methods: This retrospective study, included 151 patients (male, 45.0%; mean age at diagnosis,...

Background: Patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) presents with primary skeletal manifestations such as tall stature, chest wall abnormality, and scoliosis. And these primary skeletal manifestations affect the growth pattern in MFS. Therefore, it is not appropriate to use normal growth charts to evaluate the growth status of MFS.Objective and hypotheses: We aimed to develop disease-specific growth charts for Korean MFS patients and to use these growth char...