ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Ovarian stimulation syndrome (OSS) in an infrequent disorder, in preterm infants under 30 weeks gestation. The are very few cases described in the literature. The immaturity, lack of gonadal axis feed-back or mutations in the FSH receptor genes, may explain its physiopathology. We present the case of a 26-week neonate with this syndrome.Case summary: 26-week newborn with extremely low weight (460g) born by emergency cesarean section due to ...

Introduction: The Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) and Graves Disease (GD) have in common an autoinmune physiopathology. ITP is characterized by a platelet count less than 100 × 106/l in the absence of other cause. On one hand, ITP has been associated with thyroid dysfunction, without developing GD. On the other hand, GD might develop with moderate thrombocytopenia, generally more than 100×109/l. It is described that in most cases ITP might...

Introduction: Physical activity (PA) is one of the treatments to promote weight loss in children with obesity. The WHO advices to perform moderate to vigorous (MV) PA during 60-min daily. It is necessary to measure the effect of increasing PA and the adherence to therapy.Aims: To evaluate PA using accelerometry at the onset and after 8 weeks of treatment with nutritional intervention and increase in PA.Patients, material and method...

Background: Hypothalamic obesity (HyOb) is a disease characterized by weight gain resistant to lifestyle changes and dietary restriction. The main clinical findings are hyperfagia and decline of satiety, high levels of insulin and an increase of adipogenesis. The major problem for these patients is that conventional treatments, either medical or surgical are not succesful and have variable results.Objective and hypotheses: We aim to describe the natural ...

Background: Childhood obesity represents an important public health problem and its diagnosis and management should be based on current guidelines. Prevalence of childhood obesity in Romania is one of the lowest in Europe but with a positive trend.Aim: The aim of the current study was to analyze the implementation of the recommendations of the 2017 Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline on Assessment, Treatment an...

Background: Lipodystrophies are a group of rare disorders characterized by varying degrees of body fat loss. The metabolic abnormalities associated with lipodystrophy include insulin resistance, often leading to diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia that may be severe enough to cause acute pancreatitis and hepatic steatosis that may lead to cirrhosis.They can be either genetic or acquired, generalized or partial. Acquired generalized l...

Background: Childhood adolescence overweight and obesity are increasing in Romania, but limited information is available on their current trends.Aim: the current study aimed to analyze the trend in prevalence of weight disturbances and stunting in the past 5 years in school aged children from the Transylvania region in Romania.Material and Methods: Two cross-sectional data sets fro...

Background: Romania has a 3.3% Rromanes population according to the latest census, but no specific growth charts for this ethnic minority. Current national protocol recommends using the Swiss growth charts developed in 1989. Specific growth charts exist for ethnic subgroups like Turks in Germany and the Netherlands.Objective and hypotheses: A comparison between a Rromanes and a Romanian group of children regarding weight and height disturbances’ pre...

Background: Multiple external influences have proved to be of importance in auxology. Sub-group analysis can identify specific factors involved in normal children development.Objective and hypotheses: The main objective of the study was to identify differences in development in children born the same day from different parents. Our hypothesis was that there are identifiable general factors that predict the growth of a child.Method:...

Background: For children above 5 years of age no specific national growth charts are available in our country, the most widely used being the Swiss ones (Prader, 1989). Previous studies have shown significant differences between the various international standards available regarding. The incidence of growth disorders.Objective and hypotheses: Our aim was to compare the recommended growth reference with a new one based on a national representative sample...