ESPE Abstracts

Case: The case is a 19-year-old woman. Her chief complaint is primary amenorrhea. She was born at 40 weeks of gestational age. Birth weight was 2456 g and birth height was 47 cm and she was admitted to the hospital due to abnormality of facial formation, post-nasal cavity closure and respiratory disorders. Her motor development was delayed (standing at 3 years old, walking at 5 years old) and she underwent plastic surgery for 6 times. On admission her height was 151.6 cm (&#87...

Background: As a curative therapy, haematopoietic stem cells transplantation (HSCT) has been also used for patients with non-neoplastic diseases such as aplastic anemia, primary immunodeficiency, and some congenital metabolic diseases. For these diseases, the intensity of the conditioning has been reduced comparing to that of malignancy diseases. Therefore, late effects of HSCT for non-neoplastic diseases has been expected to be milder than that for neoplastic diseases, howeve...

MIRAGE syndrome is characterized by myelodysplasia, infection, restriction of growth, adrenal hypoplasia, genital phenotypes and enteropathy. It was established in 2016 as a new syndromic disorder caused by a gain-of-function mutation in the SAMD9 gene, which encodes a protein that suppresses cell proliferation. Due to the poor life prognosis, there are few reports on the long-term survival. Therefore, we herein report the clinical course of a 24-year-old male patient...

Background: The majority of children with short stature are classified as idiopathic short stature. Whole exome sequencing can help identify genetic causes of short stature.Methods: We recruited 10 children with short stature of unknown etiology. We conducted whole exome sequencing of the patients and their family members. We used an analysis pipeline to identify rare nonsynonymous genetic variants that might cause the short stature. All rare allelic var...

Background: Patients with homozygous and compound heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) have markedly elevated plasma LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) from birth. If untreated, patients develop cardiovascular atherosclerosis resulting in death before the second decade of life. Medication and apheresis are only partially effective in reducing LDL-C levels, and do not significantly improve the prognosis. Liver transplantation (LT) can nearly normalize the cholesterol metabolism...

Background: Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a risk factor for young adult onset diabetes mellitus (DM) and hyperlipidaemia (HL) as late effects, especially the use of total-body irradiation (TBI). In order to investigate the clinical details, we retrospectively analysed the post-HSCT patients in our institution that required treatment for DM and/or HL.Results: From 1983 to 2012, 24 children received HSCT in our hospital because of haem...

Background: N-acetylneuraminic acid synthetase-congenital disorder of glycosylation (NANS-CDG) is a recently established rare autosomal recessive disease caused by pathogenic variants in NANS involved in the biosynthesis of N-acetylneuraminic acid (the most common member of sialic acids). Sialic acids are ubiquitously distributed in the body including the brain and skeletal system, and are required for the development and function of multiple organs/tissues. C...

Background: In initial treatment of DKA, volume expansion should begin with 0.9% saline to restore the peripheral circulation. The use of large amounts of chloride-rich/bicarbonate-free fluids may cause the rapid development of hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis, which is described in ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2018.The severity of DKA, defined by pH, HCO3- Base Excess (BE), is one of the factor...

Background: Information on sex hormone levels in young children is currently lacking, because those levels are generally below the lower limit of quantitation of conventional immunoassay methods. We investigated sex differences in serum levels of sex hormones in relation to upstream hormones and other background factors in young children, using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).Methods: This cross-sectional study enrolled 151 chil...

Background: Congenital GH deficiency (GHD) can be isolated (IGHD) or combined with other pituitary hormone deficiencies (CPHD). The identification of mutations has clinical implications for the management of patients and genetic counseling1.Objective: To prospectively conduct a molecular-genetic analysis in genes associated with IGHD or CPHD.Method: Forty patients with IGHD (n=8) or CPHD (n=32) were stu...