ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Studies show that onset of puberty in girls is occurring at increasingly younger ages. Environmental endocrine disruptors are implicated in the etiology of early puberty. Polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) are one of the endocrine disruptor with proven estrogenic effects.Aim: To investigate the effect of PCBs on premature puberty in girls.Materials-Methods: The study group was selected from girls aged 2–8 years with a di...

Aim: To investigate the prevalence of hirsutism among adolescents using the modified Ferriman-Gallway (FG) Scale and to determine etiological factors in childen with hirsutism.Materials and methods: The study was in 2380 female adolescents aged 12–18 years. The modified FG score was used in the diagnosis and monitoring of hirsutism. Scores of 8 or above were regarded as hirsutism. Two hundred thirty-three volunteers determined as having hirsutism we...

Background: Collodion babies (CBs) are an inherited group of diseases characterized clinically by diffuses severely dry and scaling skin. Patients are generally born prematurely and/or small for gestational age (SGA). Congenital hypothyroidism is seen together with various congenital anomalies, although the mechanism involved is still unclear.Objective and hypotheses: To identify endocrinological problems, and particularly those concerning growth, in 42 ...

Background: GH treatment is effective in improving adult height (AH) in short children born Small for Gestational Age. If SGA children are short at the start of puberty, they could benefit from combined GH/GnRH Analogue (GnRHa) treatment.Objective and hypotheses: To determine the timing and progression of pubertal development in short SGA children, comparing GH treatment with combined GH/GnRHa treatment.Method: For the present stud...

Background: GH secretion increases physiologically during puberty and GH levels correlate with pubertal stage. Therefore, puberty is the most likely time for normalization of GH secretion in children with GHD. No studies have so far evaluated in children diagnosed as GH-deficient during childhood potential predictors of response to the reevaluation of GH secretion during puberty.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of our study is to establish and compare t...

Background: GH has a strong positive influence on bone stimulating both bone elongation and increase in size by enhancing the accrual of trabecular and cortical bone up to the attainment of peak bone mass in young adult.Aim of the study: We compared the effect of two different GH dosages on statural growth and bone geometry in two groups of GH-deficient children at final height. Data has been collected retrospectively from 1994 to 2013.<p class="abst...

Background: Diurnal glycaemic variability has a direct impact on the formation of chronic complications of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children.Aim: To clinically assess the function of the cardiovascular system depending on the diurnal glycaemic variability in children with T1DM.Material and methods: The study involved 65 children (30 girls and 35 boys) aged 4–17 years (mean age – 11+0.4 years old) with T1DM durat...

Background: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is the most frequent endocrine disorder during neonatal period and delay in diagnosis and treatment leads to irreversible complications. A high L-thyroxine (LT4) dose is recommended for treatment, while the optimal starting dose is still a matter of debate.Objective and hypotheses: The objective of this study was to determine the effects of various starting doses of LT4 on se...

Background: Notch1-Delta-like ligand 4 (Dll4) signalling pathway has a biological effect of negative feedback regulation to VEGF in retinal vascular development process. There are few studies on the inhibition of Notch1-Dll4 signalling pathway in ROP and the regulatory pathway of VEGF.Objective and hypotheses: To investigate the role that Notch1-DLL4 signal pathway played in the oxygen-induced retinal neovascularization of mice by analyzing the expressio...

Aim: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is a chronic disease and requires lifelong care and management. Carbohydrate (CHO) counting is one of the meal planning methods that can be preferred in the treatment of diabetes. We aimed to investigate the effect of carbohydrate counting on the nutritional habits and metabolic control of adolescents with Type 1 DM.Subjects and Method: Patients with Type 1DM diagnosis who applied to our Pediatric End...