ESPE Abstracts

Background: Childhood brain tumour survivors are at risk of developing endocrine secondary effects throughout lifetime. Transition between childhood and adult care is a critical moment during which patients may stop medical visits and treatments.Objective: To describe endocrine care transition in our cohort of patients with primary brain tumors followed from 2010-2015, who are ≥=18 years old by December 31st</...

Background: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and long-term glucocorticoid treatment may be associated with an increased risk of developing cardiometabolic sequelae such as abnormal glucose homeostasis, hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, cardiovascular (CV) disease, obesity and osteoporosis.Objectives: To study the current practice amongst expert centres for assessing cardiometabolic outcomes in adult patients with 21-hyd...

Aims: Historical I-CAH data shows considerable variation in the management of 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD) congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in infancy despite existence of several guidelines. Using the I-CAH registry we analysed contemporary early infancy natural history data, creating benchmarks as part of continuous quality improvement.Methods: Of 136 infants born in 2018-2023 and treated for 21-OHD CAH withi...

Background: In 2019, the International CAH Registry (I-CAH) performed a benchmarking exercise of acute adrenal insufficiency related adverse events including adrenal crises (AC) and sick day episodes (SDE).Methods: In 2022, I-CAH data on children aged <18 years at first visit with 21-hydroxylase deficiency CAH from 35 centres in 19 countries were analysed to examine the current occurrence of SDE and AC and compare it ...

Background: Central precocious puberty (CPP) is a rare disorder that occurs five times more often in girls. Patients are mostly healthy children whose pubertal maturation begins at an early age: girls <8 years; and boys <9 years. Imaging usually reveals no abnormalities in girls while in boys abnormal MRI findings are more frequent.Objective and hypotheses: We describe three cases of CPP in children with autism, a rarely reported association....

Introduction: Childhood obesity is an international pandemic which affects 13% of Canadian youth, and is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in children. While the optimal approach to treat pediatric obesity remains elusive, comprehensive and intensive behavioral interventions which leverage the child’s living environment in order to promote improvements in healthy lifestyles appear promising. The CIRCUIT program (Centre Pédiatrique d’Intervent...

Introduction: Pediatric obesity is a global public health problem that is associated with severe cardiometabolic consequences. Weight management interventions focusing on lifestyles have shown some promising results, but attrition rates are often high and reasons for dropout are poorly understood.Objectives: We aimed toestimate the prevalence, and identify the determinants of attrition among pediatric participants in the first year of a 2-year lifestyle ...

Background: Pain represents one of the most stressful experiences for children undergoing medical therapies (Kortesluoma, 2008), but is under represented in literature for what concerns pediatric endocrinology. Children consider Injections one of the most painful, frighteningand distressing procedures (Fassler, 1985). The treatment for patients with Growth Hormone Deficiency requires daily subcutaneous injection, performed by parents or patients themselves. Th...

Background: Neonatal hypocalcemia is a common disorder, occurring more often in premature, low birth weight and asphyxiated infants, as in infants born to mothers with diabetes. Nevertheless its aetiology is heterogeneous ranging from iatrogenic, idiopathic and inherited metabolic abnormalities. Among these, Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia (ADH) is a rare syndrome characterized by the presence of inappropriately low concentration of circulating parathyroid hor...

Background: 25–50% of paediatric patients with chronic endocrine diseases are lost for follow-up in adult care.Aims and objectives: A standardised medical and psychological work-up to identify disease specific morbidity and to comprehend quality of life in adolescents with chronic endocrine diseases at the time of transition from paediatric to adult care.Methods: The quality of life (DISABKIDS1 and KIDSCREEN2</...