ESPE Abstracts

Objective and hypotheses: To evaluate endocrine risk factors of testicular cancer of children with testicular microlithiasis.Method: Under research were 74 patients with testicular microlithiasis (average 11.41±4.02). Heredity, case history, endocrine diseases, anthropometric indicators, ultrasound of the scrotum were evaluated.Results: At 20 of 74 (27%) children microlithiasis was combined with strong risk factors of testicle...

Objective: To study clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with disorders of sex development (DSD) 45,X/46,XY.Subjects and methods: It was included 248 patients with genital ambiguity, which were divided into groups based on cytogenetic survey. All children with mosaicism 45,X/46,XY evaluated the structure of the external genitalia on the external masculinization score (EMS, range 0–12), ultrasound examination, the definition of anti-Mu...

Objective and hypotheses: To examine anthropometric, hormonal characteristics and their relationship in boys with constitutional delay of puberty (CDP).Method: The study included 47 boys older 13.2 year old with CDP. It evaluated anthropometric indicators, bone age and hormonal status.Results: The patients were divided: the first group consisted of 25.5% (12/47) of boys with pathological growth (Median/Me Ht-SDS=−2.3). Of the...

Background: Objective and hypotheses: Rate the frequency and structure of post-operative complications of thyroidectomy in children with nodular goiter.Method: Twenty-seven children, 20 girls (14.5±3.64 years) and seven boys (14.68±4.09 years), which were performed thyroidectomy about multinodular goiter (n=23) and single-node goiter (n=4) from 2003 to 2015. Were evaluated complaints of patients, physica...

Background: Virtual environments have proved to be successful for educational purposes in different fields. Multimedia applications might be used to consolidate and internalize informations and behavioral strategies in type 1 diabetic children.Aim: In the last years our Diabetology Division and the Department of Informatics co-created many multimedia applications (edutainments, virtual environments, role serious games, electronic diary smartphone apps, a...

Background and aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of diabetic ketoacidosis and diagnostic mistakes in onset diabetes mellitus type l in children and their relationship with age.Materials and methods: In this study were included 269 patients (from 7 month to 17 years) in onset diabetes mellitus type l since 2010–2013. All patients were divided in to two groups. The first group consists of 92 patients (children were younger t...

Background and aims: To explore the functional autonomy in adolescents with nodular goitre.Materials and methods: We have examined 66 patients with nodular goiter from iodine deficient region. There were 48 girls (mean age 14.91±1.78 years) and 18 boys (mean age 14.46±2.75 years) among them. Uninodular goitre was diagnosed in 43 patients, 23 patients had multinodular goitre. The survey included thyroid scintigraphy 99mTc and assessment of the f...

Objective: To analyze the structure of puberty delay in girls depending on the etiology of the disease.Materials and methods: 51 girls with puberty delay (14.2±0.82) were examined. Inclusion criteria: absence of secondary sex characteristics at 13; or absence of menarche by age 15 years or the absence of menarche during 3 years from the onset of estrogen-dependent puberty signs development. Exclusion criteria: age ≥18, аmbiguous genital...

Materials and methods: we included 51 girls with puberty delay (mean age 14.2±0.82 years) into the study. Inclusion criteria: no secondary sex characteristics by the age of 13 years; or no menstruation by age 15 years or no menarche during 3 years or more from the onset of estrogen-dependent signs of puberty development. Exclusion criteria: age 18 years or more, аmbiguous genitalia. According to clinical characteristics girls were divided into 3 g...

Objective: assess advantages and disadvantages of the treatment of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) with rFSH and hCG.Materials: We report the case of а 16-year old patient with complaints of no development of secondary sexual characteristics. Patient was 174 cm (SDS growth 0.25 SD, SDS growth velocity 1.62 SD, SDS BMI -0.4 SD, target height correction 1.01 SD) with Tanner G1 P1 (penis length was 5 cm). Laboratory studies included LH < 0.1 m...