ESPE Abstracts

Background: During the 1980s there were no officially accredited training programmes for subspecialty training in South Africa. Accordingly, doctors with accreditation from other countries, or with extensive experience in the subspecialty, were recognised as subspecialists, based on peer review.Objective and hypotheses: The objective of this poster was to document the development of a new Paediatric Endocrinology programme in a previously disadvantaged m...

Background: There is much activity in Africa in Paediatric Endocrinology. The international societies, ESPE, and ISPAD helped significantly in the development of paediatric endocrinology training. Considerable research is being done at the PETCA in Kenya, PETWCA in Lagos and elsewhere, but too few of the studies are published. Owing to the pressure of clinical work in Africa most endocrinologists have difficulty in completing their research.Objective and...

Background: Numerous studies focused on the association between hypospadias and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC) exposures. The wide variability of phenotypes included in these studies, the absence of comparison groups representative of the populations and the absence of concomitant genetic testing to rule out another cause make the results questionable.Objective and hypotheses: We performed a prospective phenotype-specific analysis of patients with ...

Background and methods: Sellar and suprasellar tuberculomas are extremely rare in children and most often patients present with headache, vomiting, visual disturbances, and hypofunction of the pituitary gland. Here, we report a girl with hypothalamic obesity, that recovers after antituberculosis treatment.Findings: An 11-year old girl presented with headache, fever and anorexia that progressively evolved into an encephal...

Background: Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) results from abnormalities in the genomic imprinting process leading to hypothalamic dysfunction with an alteration of GH secretion. PWS is associated with early morbid obesity and short stature which can be efficiently improved with GH treatment.Objective and hypotheses: Our aims were to highlight adipose tissue structural and functional impairments in young children with PWS and to study the effect of GH tre...

Background: Brain tumours are the most frequent solid tumours during childhood. Many of these patients develop endocrine disorders.Objective: To describe our cohort of patients with primary brain tumours, followed in the Pediatric Endocrinology Unit at Hôpital Universitaire Necker–Enfants Malades, Paris, France between 2010–2015, to assess current practice and propose recommendations.Methods: Retrospective a...

Anthropometrics is an important part of pediatrics and public health. Its non-invasiveness, simplicity and low cost makes anthropometry attractive for several purposes. It is a valuable method for the screening or assessment of growth disorders, as well as under- and over-nutrition. Furthermore, specific anthropometric measures can be used as indicators of general fitness or cardiovascular risk factors (insulin resistance and dyslipidemia) in (obese) children, as well as marke...

Global Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (GPED) aims at addressing needs that are common to all societies and is not intended to duplicate the specific societies’ activities. GPED’s website (www.globalpedendo.org) allows for registration of members as well as for a search function.Specific existing and potential projects include:i) Preventing redundancy of resources: developme...

Background: Puberty is reported to be impaired in children with Sickle cell Anemia (SCA). Studies about this topic are rare in Sub-Saharan regionObjective and hypotheses: Assessment of pubertal development of children with SCA compared to healthy children in Mother and Child Center, CHANTAL BIYA Foundation.Method: We matched a group of 64 children with SCA (26 males, 38 females) with 94 healthy controls aged of 8–17 years old....

Background: The surgical reconstruction of hypospadias is usually performed during the first 2 years of life but little objective data is available to determine its optimal timing. Whereas the no-early surgery option in DSD management is rising, the results of late genital surgery should be evaluated before advocating this attitude.Objective and hypotheses: To evaluate the outcome of hypospadias surgery according to age and to determine if some complicat...