ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: In the resource constrained setting of a general endocrine clinic, a brief counseling session was offered to all overweight children.Material: In the period 1996 – 2017, 2364 patients with obesity between the ages 5 and 18 years were seen. All gave consent for their data to be analysed. Patients with syndromic obesity or with a secondary cause for obesity were excluded.Methods: The caregiver, usually a parent was...

Introduction: The onset of puberty is preceded by the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis during infancy known as mini-puberty which is sexually dimorphic and more pronounced in male infants.Aims and objectives: the main objective was "To study LH(Luteinising hormone), FSH(follicle stimulating hormone) and Testosterone and testicular volume, stretched penile length (SP...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) is a common aneuploidy diagnosed by peripheral-blood-cell (PBC) karyotyping. Karyotyping is costly, time-staking and subject to manual errors. Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) is a cheap molecular diagnostic test which can detect several samples of TS within hours.Objective: To assess the performance of qPCR in detecting TS and variants.Methods: Ge...