ESPE Abstracts

Rapid-onset obesity with central hypoventilation, hypothalamic, autonomic dysregulation (ROHHAD) syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by respiratory failure and autonomic dysregulation with endocrine abnormalities. Some of these patients could also present with neuroendocrine tumors (ROHHADNET).Aim: To evaluate the clinical, biochemical, treatments and outcome in a cohort of pediatrics patients with ROHHAD-NET syndrome follow in a s...

Background: Quality of life (QOL) includes physical, psychological and social aspects. Transgender (TG) children undergo problems in school and with family, friends, and social relationships. These adverse effects on physical and psychosocial health can impair their quality of life.Objective and Methods: This study aims to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL), using the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire (Spanish versio...

Background: Immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked (IPEX) syndrome is a rare disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding the forkhead box P3 (FOXP3) transcription factor. This factor plays a key role in the differentiation and function of CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells, essential for the establishment and maintenance of natural tolerance.Objective: To describe clinic...

Background: T1DM incidence in children varies across regions and countries, showing a continue rise Worldwide.Objective and hypotheses: To determine the incidence of T1D in Chilean children under 20 years between 2006 and 2012.Method: We reviewed mandatory notifications of T1D (GES Program) in Chile’s public health system in population younger than 20 years between 2006 and 2014. Data were obtained from the Department of Infor...

Background: Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the most common cause of oligomenorrhea and hyperandrogenism. Diagnostic criteria for PCOS includes ovarian dysfunction and clinical or biochemical evidence of hyperandrogenism. The differential diagnosis includes congenital adrenal hyperplasia as well as steroid producing tumors.Case presentation: 18-years-old female presented to establish care with a history of PCOS diagnosed at the age of 11 years. She...

Background: Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (HH) is the most common cause of severe, persistent neonatal hypoglycemia. Treatment of diffuse forms that is unresponsive to diazoxide and octreotide is near total pancreatectomy.Objective: To describe the clinical characterization of a newborn with congenital HH due to a diffuse pancreas lesion and unresponsive to diaxoside.Case report: Preterm term male of 33 weeks born to non-consanguin...

Background and objective: Children with Thickened pituitary stalk (TPS) and/or Idiopathic central diabetes insipidus (ICDI) present to different (endocrine, oncology, and ophthalmology) specialists. Their rarity, absence of agreed radiological criteria or consensus guidance, make their management problematic. Biopsy is too dangerous and cases may remain undiagnosed or evolve over decades. We aimed: i) to longitudinally characterize a large childhood cohort presenting with TPS ...

Background: Recent studies in multiple models of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) have demonstrated the role of mitochondrial abnormalities in the pathogenesis of this disease and its complications. Humanin is a potent cyto-protective and ‘metaboloprotective’ molecule in vitro and in vivo, including the protection of β cells from apoptosis, improvements in insulin secretion and action, and both prevention and treatment of diabetes in the NOD mou...

Introduction: The Wilms tumor suppressor gene 1 (WT1) plays an essential role in urogenital and kidney development. Heterozygous germline mutations in WT1 have been classically associated with Denys–Drash (DDS) and Frasier syndrome (FS). Exonic missense mutations in the zinc-finger region are the cause of DDS and mutations affecting the canonic donor KTS splice site of intron 9 are the cause of FS. New phenotypes, as 46,XX testicular DSD...

Background: Growth hormone (GH) treatment is indicated for children who are born small for gestational age (SGA) and fail to achieve sufficient catch-up growth during infancy and remain short throughout childhood.Aims: To evaluate the effect of GH treatment in a large, multicentric, Portuguese SGA children cohort and to analyze for correlation between GH treatment response and clinical factors.<str...