ESPE Abstracts

Background: The administration of GH on paediatric patients to optimize the longitudinal growth, can modify some cardiovascular risk factors due to their effects on metabolism.Objective and hypotheses: Evaluation of the effect of GH on total cholesterol blood levels (TCBL), fasting blood glucose concentration (FBGC), blood pressure (BP) and BMI, comparing these variables before starting treatment, after a year and at the end. And it also assesses whether...

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...

Introduction: A multicenter clinical trial in the US showed that underweight small for gestation (SGA) children responded to GH treatment like non-underweight SGA children. However, data on GH response in short underweight children with the normal birth size is not studied well.Aim: To measure growth response to GH therapy in underweight children versus short normal-weight children with idiopathic short stature (ISS) bor...

Background: Steroid 11-β hydroxylase deficiency is the second most frequent cause of adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) with autosomal recessive inheritance. Girls have importantly virilized external genitalia at birth, and boys display precocious pseudopuberty. Unlike others enzymatic deficiency involved in CAH, there is no salt wasting during infancy but patients develop hypertension. Because of more than 90% of homologous sequence between CYP11B1 gene ...

Growth Hormone deficiency (GHD) in newborn is an infrequent condition, which can cause threat to life due mainly to hypoglycemia that begins in the first week of life. A GH basal level (whether random or associated with spontaneous hypoglycemia) that distinguishes infants with GHD from those with GH sufficiency in the neonatal period is not conclusive. Few data have been reported about the GH measurements in serum and dried blood spots on filter paper samples in healthy neonat...

Introduction: One of the factors affecting the treatment decision in early puberty is bone age (BA) evaluation and adult height prediction (AHP), accordingly. These calculations have certain limitations. In this study, we aimed to compare the AHP results calculated by Bayley-Pinneau (BP) and Roche-Wainer-Thissen(RWT) methods based on BA evaluation by using Greulich-Pyle(GP) atlas and BoneXpert™ software.Methods: A t...

Patients: A 2-year old girl was referred due to glucosuria 1874 mg/dl. Fasting blood sugar was 71 mg/dl and HbA1c 4.8%. Examination of her growth charts revealed mild failure to thrive, since 15 months of age, as far as weight gain and height velocity. We used Flash technology (FreeStyle Libre) to identify hypoglycemic episodes. In 9 days, 8% of the time was < 70 mg/dl, with 11 hypoglycemic events: mean duration 94 min, lowest 52 mg/dl.<p class...

Objective: To report on a pediatric case series of massive insulin overdose, its altered pharmacokinetics and the patients favorable outcome.Cases and results: Case 1: 300 IU of insulin aspart were subcutaneously injected into a non-diabetic eight-year-old boy within an extended suicide. After 16 hours he was found unconscious with generalized convulsions. The initial blood glucose concentration was below detection limit. It normalized o...

In a time of widespread availability of thyroid lab tests plenty of patients are reported to endocrine clinics because of isolated slightly increased TSH value and many papers are dedicated disscussion of precautions to treatment in subclinical hypothyroidism. Simultaneously in the same places other patients develop severe hypothyroidism without proper diagnosis. What is the reason of missing diagnoses?The Aim: Clinical characteristics of severe hypothyr...

The third child to Burmese parents is born at term in good condition in a suburban hospital. The baby was breast fed from birth and had a normal physical examination without dysmorphic features or palpable liver edge. The parents have had two previous live male births at term, that developed severe jaundice and seizure in the first 24 hours of life; both passed away on day 3 of life. Due to concerns of possible metabolic condition, the baby was commenced on prophylactic photot...