ESPE Abstracts

We evaluated the final height and the endocrine complications encountered in young adult patients with Thalassemia Intermedia (TI) followed at Hematology Section, Doha (Qatar) in relation to the liver iron content (LIC) in non-transfused versus infrequently transfused TI patients.Patients and Methods: This retrospective cohort study was performed on 28 young adults with TI who were randomly selected from the Hematology clinic, National C...

Introduction: Health literacy is a recognized concept in diabetes care. The newest vital sign (NVS) is an English instrument established to test health literacy using a nutrition label. No studies looked into health literacy in the Arab world. Our aim is to translate and validate the NVS tool to Arabic then test it on a pilot of Arabic-speaking caregivers of children with type 1 diabetes.Methods: i) Production of the Arabic version: the English version o...

Background: Glucocorticoids play an important role in the developing fetus; the most important of which is lung maturation by increasing surfactant production and release. Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) functioning changes throughout the fetal period, especially during the transition to extrauterine life. Given the importance of glucocorticoids in lung development and functioning, studying glucocorticoid sensitivity (GS) in this population would be helpful, especially in the pre...

Background: Short stature is a prominent complaint for which children are referred to pediatric endocrinologists. Data on short stature is lacking in the Arab states in the gulf region despite the fact that treatment is easily accessible. The study aimed to describe the referral pattern, baseline characteristics, and etiological profile of children referred with short stature to a pediatric endocrine clinic in Kuwait.Method: This is a cross-sectional ret...

Background: Patients with Down’s syndrome have an increased prevalence of autoimmune disorders affecting both endocrine and non endocrine organs. The commonest autoimmune disease is related to the thyroid gland.Objective and hypotheses: To describe a child with down’s syndrome who has been treated of hypothyroidism But converted to hyperthyroidism few years later.Method: A 5-year old boy with Down’s syndrome presente...

Like many other parts of the world the incidence of type 1 diabetes is increasing in Sudan leading to the double load of communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Many international guidelines for management of these cases have been published to help managing these children. In developing countries proper implementation of these guidelines is faced with difficulties due to lack of trained personnel, health care structure, accessibility to medical services, lack of facilities ...

Background: Disorder of sex development (DSD) includes a wide spectrum of clinical disorders affecting gonadal and genital development. Many causative gene mutations are involved in these disorders. One of these genes is nuclear receptor subfamily 5 group A member 1 (NR5A1) encoding Steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) located on chr 9q33.3. This gene is expressed in many tissues such as Sertoli cell and Leydig cell in testes, ovaries, placenta, adrenal cortex, hypot...

20 months old girl has frequent hypoglycemias, protruding forehead(frontal bossing), sunken bridge of the nose (saddle nose), and a blue tint to the whites of the eyes (blue sclerae). short limbs compared to the size of her torso, as well as small hands and feet, fragile thin hair,short limbs, Genu varum, Brachydactyly,malar falttening, motor delay, delayed teeth eruption, when plotted to growth chart height found far below the third centile for age,sex,population, Hre laborat...

Aim: There is a well described association between diabetes and deafness in many syndromes Collect baseline data about syndromes of diabetes and deafness in Sudan and the underline etiology.Methods: All records of patients with diabetes registered from (Jan.2006 to Dece.2015) were reviewed. Those confirmed to have deafness where further reviewed to find the etiology and management.Result: Ten cases of Wolfram syndrome were identifi...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with diabetes. Macro- and micro-vascular complications are involved in the pathophysiology of CVD and the increased risk of developing atherosclerosis in this population. A probable association between type 1 diabetes (Type 1 D) and CVD has been attributed to chronic uncontrolled hyperglycemia, inflammation, endothelial dysfunction (ED), and subclinical manifestations of vascular disease. ...