ESPE Abstracts

Neonatal hypoglycemia is the most common endocrine abnormality in children, which is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The burden and risk factors of neonatal hypoglycemia in Qatar are suggested to be high because of the high prevalence of gestational diabetes.Objective: To determine the incidence of neonatal hypoglycemia in Qatar in relation to the etiology (infants of diabetic mothers (IDM) vs infants of nondiabetic mo...

Pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) and related disorders lead to a wide spectrum of abnormal physical characteristics, neurocognitive and endocrine abnormalities. PHP (including all subtypes), pseudoPHP, acrodysostosis and progressive osseous heteroplasia refer to heterogeneous disorders characterized by physical findings, differently associated in each subtype, including short bones, short stature, stocky build, subcutaneous ectopic ossifications, as well as laboratory abnormalit...

Timely recognition and treatment of neonatal hypoglycemia are important because of the potential for adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. One of the major problems in infants born following a pregnancy complicated by diabetes is hypoglycemia. In addition, hypoglycemia occurs in infants of non-diabetic mothers. We conducted a retrospective cohort study including all infants who had hypoglycemia during the first day of life, between 1-9-2017 and 31-8-2020. We studied the relatio...

The benefits of surgical repair on long term growth in children with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) have been variable. Surgery undertaken beyond infancy has often been associated with a residual degree of growth impairment. Primary repair of during early infancy was adopted in many centres, if clinically indicated. We examined the effects of full early surgical correction of TOF on linear growth for 2 years postoperatively. Anthropometric data of infants with TOF before and after ...

The arterial switch operation (ASO) represents a remarkable success in the treatment of cyanotic congenital heart disease, with survival rates approaching 100%. The effect of infantile deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and hypoxia on post-operative linear growth is not studied. Growth data were recorded and analyzed in 12 infants with d-TGA who underwent switch operation (anatomical correction) in the early neonatal period for 18 months.Results...

Introduction: Epidemiological data suggest that obesity was associated with increased risk of renal injury in children.Objective: To assess urinary podocalyxin in obese children and adolescents as a marker of obesity related kidney disease (ORKD) compared to urinary albumin creatinine (A/C) ratio as the standard marker of glomerular injury.Methodology: This case-control study inclu...

Background: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is significantly increased in pediatric population, which is affected by obesity worldwide. The progression of insulin resistance to T2D in obese children has been shown to be faster than in adults. Therefore, screening for T2D seems meaningful especially in high risk groups such as children and adolescents with obesity, family history of T2D, and those with clinical features of insulin resistance (hypertension, dyslipidemia,...

Due to recent scientific progress in assisted reproductive techniques (ART), infertile couples can now become fertile. Thus, a number of infants in our country are the results of these costly interventions. This study has been undertaken to evaluate the physical growth of ART infants using standard growth charts from birth until 18 months of age.Methods: We measured the anthropometric data of 100 infants newborns conceived through ART intracytoplasmic sp...

Background: To update the ongoing debate about the use of universal strict vs (local) national intrauterine growth charts, we compared the prevalence of small and large-for-gestational-age (SGA/LGA) infants according to international charts and national growth data.Methods: We classified singleton births from 33 to 42 weeks of gestation in 2016 and 2019 from Qatar (n = 92431), SGA (birthweight <10th percentil...

Introduction: Infants whose weight is > the 90th percentile for gestational age are classified as large for gestational age (LGA). Catch-up and catch-down growth can be defined as an increase or decrease in WAZ by > 0.67 SD respectively during the infantile period. It was suggested that in LGA rapid catch-up and/or no catch-down during infancy may be associated with the development of overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) during childhood.<p class="abstex...