ESPE Abstracts

Background: Paediatric Cushing disease (CD) is rare but can be severe. Diagnosis and proper management are often delayed and the course of disease is unpredictable. Support from experts in the field is essential.Objective and hypotheses: We present a male patient, diagnosed with Cushing syndrome elsewhere more than two years after his initial signs and symptoms. For 6 months he underwent numerous investigations, which were inconclusive and was left untre...

Background: Both timing of menarche and growth patterns have changed with time (secular changes), highlighting the need of updated knowledge in this topic1. Questions how growth is related to menarche are common in pediatric/pediatric endocrine outpatient clinics. The QEPS-growth model makes it possible to conduct detailed analyses of pubertal growth2.Objective: To investigate the relationship betwe...

The role of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in the regulation of growth of children with intrauterine growth is currently being discussed, but the final point of view has not been achieved.Aim: to study the effect of IGF-1 in the dynamics of postnatal growth of premature infants with SGA in the first 5 years of life.Material and Methods: The prospective study included prematurity with SGA (gro...

Prematurity combined with intrauterine growth retardation (small to gestational age, SGA) is a potential risk factor for adverse growth prognosis. There is insufficient evidence on this issue.Aim: to study the growth rates in preterm infants born small to gestational age, different gestational age in the first 5 years of life.Material and Methods: The prospective study included preterm infants with...

Premature infants born small by gestational age (SGA) represent a potential cohort for growth retardation. However, up to the present time, questions of the frequency and severity of the growth deficit, the timing of the growth rate, the age of achievement of the population standard depending on the gestational age have been discussed.Aim: To assess the dynamics of growth of preterm infants born small by gestational age within 5 years of life, taking int...

There is not enough reasoned data on the dynamics of body weight indices in premature infants born small by gestational age (SGA).Aim: To study the nutritional status in premature babies born small by gestational age, in the first 5 years of life.Materials and Methods: The prospective study included preterm infant with SGA (n = 100) and prematurity corresponding to gestational age - AGA (n = 69) w...

Aim: to evaluate the frequency and predictors of short stature in preterm infants born small for gestational age (SGA), by the age of 5 years. Materials and Methods. We examined 100 premature babies (gestational age of 22-31 weeks – 18, 32-36 weeks – 82), born SGA with the tables Fenton T. R. et al. (2013). Protocol included an assessment of anthropometric indicators and IGF-1 levels in the blood at birth, at the ages of 1 and 5 years. The odds ratio...

Background: Short stature is a common presentation in pediatric endocrinology and its etiologies encompass non-endocrine factors, endocrine disorders, and normal variations. Growth failure can serve as an alarmingly subtle indicator of underlying severe diseases, sometimes obfuscating multiple causative factors. Understanding the complexities involved in evaluating growth failure in the presence of chronic conditions is crucial for efficient management. This c...

Background/Objective: Smoking during pregnancy is known to influence prenatal/postnatal growth of the offspring. We investigated the impact of smoking in the Swedish reference population for new reference for height, weight and BMI, the GrowUp1990Gothenburg cohort.Material/Methods: The study was based on 1907 healthy children (918girls/989boys) born at term in Sweden with Nordic parents and longitudinal growth measurements. 155girls/180b...

Background and aim: How gestational age and size at birth are related to the timing of puberty and the adult height of an individual is not well known. Children born small, either preterm or small for gestational age (SGA), are known to be shorter than their peers during childhood. Both adult height and pubertal timing depends on both genetical and environmental factors, have changed over time with broad individual variations. Previous studies have shown confl...