ESPE Abstracts

Quality of care of children living with diabetes varies widely around the world. Since discovering of insulin a hundred years ago, it’s still unavailable for a large part of children living with diabetes in developing world. According to World Health Organisation (2019), less than 13% of people living with diabetes in these countries have access to long acting insulin analogues. Thus, primary challenges of management of type I diabetes is reduction of mortality especially...

Background: The age of onset of puberty varies from country to another and, within every country, from one socioeconomic group to another. In Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Cameroon, there is paucity of data on this topic.Objective and hypotheses: To determine clinically meaningful normative reference data that describe the timing of sexual maturity indicators among Cameroonian children and to determine factors that influence the onset of this matur...

Introduction: Variation of sex development are rare diseases with diverse aetiologies. Ovotesticular diseases are not well described in Sub Saharan countries, justifying the present study with aimto draw the clinical and biomolecular aspects in a paediatric center.Methods: We did an observational study of patients followed in the Mother and child center of the Yaounde. Ovo testicular DSD was diagnosed on clinical, morpho...

Introduction: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is the most common cause of primary adrenal insufficiency. It is a rare monogenic recessive disorder. In African setting in absence of neonatal screening, the diagnosis is still late, based on a clinical approach. During this clinical enquiry, information form past history or pedigree of the patient are of a huge importance and may revealed surprisesPatients and methods: In th...

Background: Disorders of sex genitalia are a large group of genetic disorders whose management is still unaffordable in many countries in sub Saharan Africa. In Cameroon, although many collaborative initiatives of management are developed, little data are available.Objectives: Describe epidemiological clinical, aetiologies and management aspect of DSD in a developing country.Patients and methods: This is a 5 years retrospective stu...