ESPE Abstracts

Background/Purpose: Hyperprolactinemia is a rare endocrine disorder in childhood and there are limited etiological, clinical, and demographic data. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical features and course of hyperprolactinemia in childhood and adolescents and to help diagnose and plan the management.Methods: In this single-center retrospective study included 21 patients with hyperprolactinemia from Ajou...

Background: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) treatment is widely used for central precocious puberty (CPP). Although some authors found increases in body mass index (BMI) in girls after GnRHa treatment, most studies reported no significant difference in BMI in girls during and after treatment. However, few studies have investigated changes in BMI in boys with CPP during and after GnRHa treatment. Hence, we aimed to evaluate the effects of GnRHa t...

Purpose: We investigated uric acid reference values and their association with cardiometabolic risk among children and adolescents using the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES).Methods: A total of 2,462 participants, aged 10-18 years, from the KNHANES 2016-2018 were included.Results: Serum uric acid (SUA) levels varied with sex and age. In male subjects...

Background: Infantile obesity is nowadays a pandemic disease and needs a paediatrician interventional attitude. Since 1990 until 2010 it has trebled and the World Health Organization recommends prevention ‘as soon as possible’ even during the first year of life. A Spanish study (Aladino 2011) stimated the prevalence of overweight in boys as a 26.3% and in girls a 25.9% and the prevalence of obesity as a 22% and a 16.2% respectively. Our aim was to set up a new score ...

Background: The lack of agreement in the definition of vitamin D deficiency may be due to differences in the study populations or in the assays used to measure 25OHD.Objective and hypotheses: The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between 25OHD and PTH, and define the level of vitamin D deficiency in a paediatric population.Method: Retrospective medical record of children (age: 0.1–18years, n=193) who v...

Children with diabetes, and particularly those with obesity, have poor glycemic control. They are thus at higher risk of early microvascular complications. Renal tubulointerstitial markers are integral to evaluating diabetic nephropathy. Various biomarkers have been proposed, but their role in the obese pediatric population is uncertain. We investigated renal injury markers in children with diabetes, according to obesity, and determined their role as early predictors of diabet...

GX-H9 is a long-acting form of recombinant human GH under clinical development for both adults and children with GH deficiency (GHD). This study was designed to compare 12-month effects of once-weekly and twice-monthly (every other week; EOW) administration of GX-H9 treatment to that of Genotropin®, in pediatric patients with GHD. A randomized, open-label, active-controlled, parallel study was conducted at 27 endocrinology centers in 10 countries (Europe and Ko...

Hyponatremia with hyperkalemia in infancy may be seen in many endocrinologic and metabolic disorder such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, congenital adrenal hypoplasia, and other forms of hypoadrenalism in infancy. Here, we report a infants who presented with hyponatremia with hyperkalemia finally diagnosed as pseudohypoaldosteronism (PHA) due to urinary tract infection (UTI) with reflux nephropahy. A 5-month-old female initially was transferred for poor weight gain for 2 mo...

Purpose: Adrenal neoplasms (ANs) are rare endocrine neoplasms in children, and etiopathogenesis and prognosis of pediatric ANs remain obscure. This study investigated clinical features, histopathological features, genetic etiologies and prognosis of ANs.Methods: This study included 33 ANs patients diagnosed from March 1997 to April 2021. Clinical features and endocrine findings were collected by retrospective medical cha...

Background: Long-term survivors of childhood acute leukaemia can suffer from growth impairment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate longitudinal growth and final height of paediatric patients who were treated with acute leukaemia and factors that can cause growth impairment.Methods: Of 234 patients (133 males and 101 females) who were diagnosed as acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL; n=162) or acute myeloblastic leukaemia (AML; n=7...