ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Hypopituitarism leads to one or more pituitary hormones deficiency. Hypopituitarism can be congenital or acquired. The incidence of congenital hypopituitarism is between 1 in 4000 and 1in 10 000 live births. Children with congenital hypopituitarism may present with hypoglycemia, hyponatremia, shock, micro phallus in males, and later present with growth failure. It can be due to congenital or acquired causes. Adamantinomatous type craniopharingiom...

Introduction: Hydrometrocolpos (HMC) develops in a female child as a result of a vaginal outflow tract obstruction and accumulation of secretions. HMC can have associated with other malformations or associated syndromes. Imperforated hymen, vaginal atresia, persistent urogenital sinus, and cloacal malformation, are the common causes for HMC. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia causing androgen exposure during the fetal life leads to varying degree of ambiguous geni...

Introduction: The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing worldwide, and the management remains a challenge. The mainstay of management is lifestyle modification but if this is not successful, pharmacological agents are considered although the options in children and young people are quite limited. Metformin has been used as an adjunct therapy alongside lifestyle modification in children and young people with obesity. Some studies have shown it to be eff...

Introduction: Excessive androgen secretion from gonads, adrenal gland and tumors arising from germ cells lead to gonadotropin independent precocious puberty in male and virilization in females. Rapid progression of symptoms with peripheral precocity need urgent evaluation to identify the underlying etiology. We report three cases of malignancy with excess androgen secretion within a year in a tertiary care children hospital in Sri Lanka....

Neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism (NSHPT) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder due to inactivating mutations of calcium-sensing receptor. These receptors are vital in calcium homeostasis and are expressed in a number of tissues such as parathyroid glands, renal tubules and bone. Homozygous mutations lead to severe hypercalcemia and life-threatening bone demineralization if untreated. A neonate born to 2nd degree consanguineous parents presented with poor feeding...

Introduction: Sex determining region Y (SRY gene) located in chromosome Yp11.3, initiate gonadal differentiation into testes, which subsequently leads to development of Wolffian duct, male external genitalia, and regression of Mullerian duct. Not only SRY, SOX9, FGF9, DAX1, WT1, RSPO1, and SOX10 contribute for gonadal differentiation. Imbalance of expression of above genes in the absence of SRY leads to 46, XX testicular DSD. We describe a case of 46...

McCune Albright syndrome (MAS) is rare with a prevalence of 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 1,000,000, characterized by the triad of monostotic/polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (FD), café au lait skin pigmentation, and hyperfunctioning endocrinopathies caused by somatic activating mutations of the GNAS1 gene encoding the α subunit of guanine nucleotide-binding protein. Here we are reporting three cases of MAS who are actively being followed up in a leading Children’s Hosp...