ESPE Abstracts

Background: Both genetic and environmental factors serve as the trigger of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT), but the exact mechanisms are still not fully understood. Increased intestinal permeability was shown to be a constant and early feature of several autoimmune disorders. Although HT is the most common autoimmune disorder worldwide, the role of intestinal permeability in its pathogenesis had received little attention. Human zonulin modulates intracellular...

Background: Close monitoring of growth is vital when following children with achondroplasia yet existing growth curves suffer from a simple chart format and their clinical use is therefore limited. Also, references for body proportions; i.e. sitting height, relative sitting height and arm span, are lacking.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of this study was to construct age-specific growth curves for height, weight, BMI, head circumference and body propo...

Objective: It is known that vitamin D has differential roles in cell proliferation, differentiation, neurotransmission and neuroplasticity in nervous system and exerts neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects. In recent studies, it was shown that vitamin D could be protective against in age-related macular degeneration and optic neuritis related to demyelinating disorders. Here, we aimed to perform visual evoked potential (VEP) studies before treatment in patients with rickets...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the values of the mean platelet volume (MPV), a predictor of cardiovascular disease, in paediatric patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), in addition to healthy controls, to determine the risk of cardiovascular disease in these two disorder groups.Material and method: The study included a total of 79 patients aged 3–18 with ADHD (36 pati...

Backgound: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is one of the chronic disease frequently encountered in childhood and the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is one of the uncommon complications in the management of these patients.Objective and hypotheses: In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between serum fetuin-A levels which a negative acute phase reactant and the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in T1 diabetic patients.<p class="abst...

Objective: It is known that vitamin D has differential roles in cell proliferation, differentiation, neurotransmission and neuroplasticity in nervous system and exerts neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects, even different functions of vitamin D has been studied by advocating that vitamin D should be classified as a neurosteroid. It has been long known that vitamin D deficiency, VDR dysfunction, hyperparathyroidism and hypervitaminosis are potential causes for sensorineural ...

Aims: To define the normal ranges of the thicknesses of the skin and subcutaneous tissues via ultrasonography, and to determine whether the current syringe needle-lengths used for the subcutaneous injections were appropriate.Methods: The thicknesses of the skin and subcutaneous tissues of 2 244 students were measured at the left arm using ultrasonography. Patients were divided into three groups based on age: 6–8, 9–12 and 13–17 ye...

Background: Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by susceptibility to tumours including haemangioblastomas of retina and central nervous system, renal cell carcinoma and phaeochromocytomas. The disease is caused by mutations in the VHL tumour suppressor gene.Objective and hypotheses: We present an adolescent with VHL disease confirmed by genetic analysis which revealed the mutation p. A149P (PCC>GCC), which ...

Objective: To determine the prevalences of goitre and thyroid nodule, and to analyse the associations among age, gender, anthropometrics and thyroid volume in school children.Materials and method: Schools governed by Ministry of Education in Van province were included into the study. Sonographic evaluations of thyroid glands were performed in children aged 6–17 years, and weight, height, waist circumference, hip circumference, and skinfold thickness...

Context: There is a limited data from large cohorts regarding pubertal characteristics of children with classical 21-hydroxylase deficiency(21OHD).Objective: To explore the timing and tempo of puberty, and pubertal height gain(PHG) in children with 21OHD-CAH.Design: A multicenter observational, retrospective, longitudinal analysis.Patients: D...