ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Non-communicable diseases are recognized as a major cause of morbidity in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). There are 21 francophone countries (>100 million speak French) in Sub-Saharan Africa (FSSA). We identified only 19 pediatric endocrinologists in FSSA (37% in Cameroon and Senegal) mostly trained in France or through the successful anglophone “Paediatric Endocrine Training Centers for (West) Africa” (PETC[W]A) offered i...

Background: Monitoring of thyroid function in neonates born from mothers affected by autoinmune thyroid disease is not perfectly established. The influence of etiology of maternal disease, maternal thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPOAb) and l-thyroxine therapy during pregnancy on neonatal thyroid function were also investigated.Method: 194 term neonates were tested for thyroid function by measurement of free thyroxine (FT4</s...

A structured program of therapeutic education is essential to achieve a good result from the use of technology in the treatment of diabetes.Objectives: Facilitate knowledge, skills and aptitudes to patients and their families in therapy. Promote the capacity for self-management and adherence to treatment. Provide ongoing support to patients. Improve clinical outcomes, health status and quality of life.Metho...

Background: Approximately 15 million children are born preterm worldwide yearly.Objective and hypotheses: To evaluate spontaneous growth during the first 8 years of life.Hypotheses: Preterm born children have spontaneous recovery of weight and height in the first 8 years of life.Method: Measurements at birth, 6, 12 and 24 months of corrected age and at recall [6.4±0.5 years (5.2–8.0)]. Weight, lengt...

The majority of treated obese children fail the goals set in the medium-long term or do not show themselves up at the short term follow up. These results, which do not improve even with the proliferation of facilities aimed to the treatment of obesity and of its complications, pose serious questions on how to make the best use of scarce resources available by the National health system. We have visited, between 2013 and 2015, 378 seriously obese children (>2 DS from nation...

Congenital hyperinsulinism (HI) is the most common cause of persistent hypoglycemia in neonates, infants, and children, and is caused by genetic mutations in pancreatic beta-cells. Current therapies are burdensome, have limited efficacy, and are associated with significant morbidity. CRN04777 is a potent, orally-bioavailable, selective SST5 agonist that suppresses insulin secretion in the terminal steps of the insulin secretion pathway and could be useful for patients with con...

Background: Hyperphosphatemic familial tumoral calcinosis (HFTC) is a condition characterized by hyperphosphatemia and abnormal deposit of phosphate and calcium most often around the hips, shoulders and elbows and rarely in the brain.Case presentation: A four-year-old-girl from Arabian origin was referred to the regional paediatric endocrine clinic from the Orthopedics Team due to: recurrent calcinosis of the right calcaneus and incipient left wrist pain...

Background: The ECOS observational study in Spain (NCT01376921) aims to evaluate adherence to r-hGH therapy prescribed via the easypod™ electromechanical auto-injector device and to analyse factors that may influence adherence in paediatric patients. Easypod™ administers pre-set doses of Saizen® r-hGH and stores accurate records of each dose and injection taken, which can then be shared with the HCP for evaluation of the patient’s adherence.<...

Background: Rasopathies are a heterogeneous group of diseases that share phenotypic characteristics such as facial dysmorphism, congenital heart disease and short stature.Objective and hypotheses: Evaluation of growth and study of the GH–IGF1 axis. Molecular Study of the PTPN11, SOS1, RAF, KRAS, NRAS, MAP2K1 and MAP2K2 genes. Evaluation of growth and study of the GH–IGF1 axis.Method: Descriptive retrospective study in pat...

Background: Neonatal over-nutrition (NON) can have a long-term effects on energy homeostasis and some of these effects may be sexually dimorphic.Objective and hypotheses: We aimed to determine how NON affects body weight (BW), body composition and cytokine levels throughout development and if these changes are sexually dimorphic. We hypothesised that the effects would be both age and sex dependant.Methods: At birth, Wistar rats wer...