ESPE Abstracts

The aim of this presentation is to give an overview of motor disabilities in girls with Turner syndrome (TS), the impact on daily life and suggestions for treatment.Girls with TS show substantially lower performance in gross and fine motor function tests and motor milestones are achieved relatively late. Moreover, girls with TS frequently encounter problems in specific motor functioning i.e. oral-motor and visual-motor coordination, motor learning and pr...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) is a genetic syndrome caused by complete or partial absence of an X chromosome. It is the most common diagnosed sex chromosome abnormality in women, affecting 1/2000–2500 female live births.Objective and hypotheses: To determine to establish the clinical, hormonal, cytogenetic, and evolutive pattern of children with TS and to establish for correlations between genotype and phenotype.Method: We ...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) has several defects affecting different organs. Heart defects are the most common. They can be symptomatic (Heart murmur, high blood pressure) or diagnosed systematically. The chromosomal profile affects the nature of the anomalies encountered.Objective and hypotheses: Report cardiac abnormalities in the ST.Method: This is a retrospective study of 60 TS patients identified in 20 years. Mean age was ...

Background: Transverse Myelitis (TM) is an auto-immune syndrome with neural injury to the spinal cord. The TM may be first clinical manifestation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It is known that Turner’s Syndrome (TS) is associated to the presence of autoimmune diseases.Case Report: A 15-year old female, began with manifestations of loss of strength on the lower limbs evolving rapidly with sensorial loss, tetraparesis and hemodynamic instability, requir...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) is one of the most common causes of short stature in females. Adult height of patients with TS is 20 cm shorter than in general population. GH therapy improves height outcome in girls with TS; results depend on age at diagnosis, duration of therapy, and doses of GH.Objective: To evaluate growth and safety during the first 4 years of GH treatment in patients with TS.Method: Eight prepubertal girls wi...

Turner syndrome is the most common chromosomal disorder in girls. They present classically short stature and delayed puberty. Turner girls with 45,X karyotype show normal female external genitalia. But Turner patients containing 45,X/46,XY mosaicism, or Sex-determining Region Y(SRY) gene may have mixed gonadal dysgenesis with various external sexual differentiation or pure gonadal dysgenesis. Existence of Y chromosome particles in Turner syndrome implies that they have risk of...

Turner syndrome is a condition in females missing a sex chromosome (45,X) or parts of the second sex chromosome. It is considered a rare condition and associated with a range of characteristics, such as short stature, ovarian dysgenesis, delayed puberty and infertility, congenital malformations of the heart, endocrine disorders, including a range of autoimmune conditions and type 2 diabetes. Morbidity and mortality is clearly increased compared with the background population a...

Turner syndrome (TS) affects 25-50 per 100,000 females and can involve multiple organs through all stages of life, necessitating a multidisciplinary approach to care. Numerous important advances have been noted during recent years. These advances cover all specialty fields involved in the care of girls and women with TS. This new international guideline is based on an international effort with emphasis on 1) diagnostic and genetic issues, 2) growth and development during child...

Introduction: Turner syndrome (TS) is a common genetic disorders with an estimated range of occuring in 25–210 per 100 000 liveborn females. In Denmark the prevalence of TS has been found to be 40 per 100 000 liveborn females. Our aim was to study the epidemiology of TS in Iceland for the period of 1968–2012.Methods: Primary source of data were hospital records and records from all pediatric endocrinologists in Iceland. To validate the data the...

Background: Pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) is a rare condition with heterogeneous presentation. It is divided in various subgroups depending upon the manifestations. Type 1a Pseudohypoparathyroidism usually presents with brachydactyly, short stature along with other manifestations of Albright’s hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO) like obesity, mental retardation. The basic pathology is resistance to hormonal actions associated with G protein coupled receptors due defective GN...