ESPE Abstracts

Objective: To summarize the metabolic status in children with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia(CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD).Methods: Children with classic 21OHD from Pediatric Endocrinology Clinics at the First affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University from January 1990 to February 2023 were included in the study. The prevalence of overweight/obesity, dyslipidemia [high triglyceride (TG), high ...

Background: Sitosterolemia (STSL) is an extremely rare genetic disease. Xanthomas as the first symptom is frequently misinterpreted as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) in children. Inappropriate treatment may deteriorate the condition.Objectives: The goal of this study was to summarize the clinical characteristics of children with STSL who had xanthomas as their first symptom and to provide clues for early clinical dia...

Background and Objectives: In the patients with Turner syndrome (TS), the risk of hypertension is higher in childhood and adulthood. The aim of the study was to retrospectively analyze 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in children and adolescents with TS and its related factors.Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted involving TS patients admitted to our pediatric endocrine specialist...

Object: To raise the awareness of clinical manifestations about vasculitis-related moyamoya syndrome by summarizing the clinical characteristics of a girl with central precocious puberty, vasculitis-related moyamoya syndrome and reviewing the literature. Method: We carried on the review analysis to the patient with central precocious puberty, vasculitis-related moyamoya syndrome and reviewed the literature. Result: The bilateral breast development was the prim...

Objective: To summarize the diagnosis and treatment of a rare 46XY DSD cause: Denys-Drash syndrome.Methods: To summarize the clinical manifestations, laboratory tests, diagnosis and treatment of a rare 46XY DSD cause presenting with hemolytic uremic syndrome: Denys-Drash syndrome (WT1 mutation).Results: Female, 2 years and 4 months, were admitted to the hospital at 2018-11-7 becaus...

Prolactinoma is most common functioning pituitary adenoma(50%). However, there have been limited studies for prolactinoma in adolescents. Pituitary adenomas are uncommon in childhood and adolescence (<3% of childhood supratentorial tumors, 3–6% of all surgically treated adenomas). The aim of this study is to assess the characteristics of Korean adolescents with prolactinoma and their clinical course. This study is retrospective cohort study. Patients diagnosed with pr...

Objective: To screen and identify serum differentially expressed proteins in girls with rapidly progressing central precocious puberty and healthy girls by proteomics. Methods: 15 idiopathic central precocious puberty girls and 15 healthy children were admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Suzhou University from August 2017 to October 2018.After mixing in the group, the high-abundance protein was removed and quantified ...

Objective: We report a case of a 5y3m patient who complained of breast development with "45, X Turner syndrome (TS) and HCG-secreting gonadoblastoma (Gb)" with Y chromosome mosaicism. Aim to understand the diagnosis of TS and improve the diagnosis and treatment of HCG-secreting tumors.Methods: The data of clinical diagnosis and treatment of this patient were summarized, and the literatures were reviewed.<p ...

Background: Precocious puberty is common in boys occasionally in girls with beta human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG)-secreting intracranial tumors, and is reported to be peripheral precocious puberty exclusively.Object: To described a girl with intracranial β-hCG-secreting germ cell tumor（GCT） who presented with central precocious puberty（CPP）.Method:<...

Background: 5α - reductase type 2 deficiency (5αRD) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease which has an incidence of 11.2%–15.5% among population with 46, XY DSD (disorders of sex development).Objective: To study the growth pattern in Chinese pediatric patients with 5αRD.Subjects: Data were from 187 patients with 5αRD (age from 0–16 years old,with homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in ...