ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: The umbrella term disorders of sex development (DSD) encompass a conglomerate of different genetic conditions affecting gonadal and adrenal function. Access to specialized health care and dissatisfaction with medical and psychosocial care is an issue for many adult patients. However, it is not evident which type of health care meets the needs of care seekers with DSD.Patients and methods: The European multidisciplinary outcome study dsd-LIF...

Introduction: Vitamin D may be considered as a hormone of prohormone of pleiotropic effects. Seasonal variability of insolation affects its synthesis in humans. In our latitude, vitamin D deficiency is widespread. In 2018, updated recommendations for vitamin D supplementation were published in Poland by Rusi&nacute;ska et al. In 2020, SARS-CoV-2 pandemic lockdown was introduced, with suggestions of protective anti-viral vitamin D role.<p class="ab...

Introduction: Vitamin D (VitD) is a prohormone that is synthesized in the skin after sun exposure. Mandatory lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic may have altered the sun exposure time of children.Aim: to evaluate vitD levels in a sample of children and adolescents, and compare between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods.Methoths Children and adolescents, from a Portuguese tertiary ...

Context: Optimal levels of 25-OH-Vitamin D (25OHD) for children are unknown. Prevalent population levels of 25OHD are likely to be sub-optimal since sun exposure is reduced in modern living.Objective: To deduce recommended levels of 25OHD by testing, in children, the level at which 25OHD optimally effects calcium, phosphate and parathyroid hormone levels in a population-based data.Design:</...

Objective: To analyze the clinical characteristics and treatment of non-germinomatous germ cell tumor (NGGCT) in one girl with the initial onset of homosexual peripheral precocious puberty (PPP) and central diabetes insipidus (CDI) and eventually progressed into central precocious puberty (CPP).Methods: The clinical data of a girl who was diagnosed as NGGCT with the onset of PPP and CDI and eventually progressed into CPP...

Objective: We sought to evaluate the role of long-term HRT on the lipid profile and glucose metabolism in girls with TS.Design: A pre-test/post-test observational study.Seting: Pediatric TS clinic in The First Affiated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University.Patients: 56 girls with TS had accurate maintenance HRT data....

Background: Detail knowledge of pubertal development mode in girls with Turner syndrome (TS) who underwent hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is benefit for the proposal of an optimal HRT. The study was to study the pubertal development mode of girls with TS who underwent HRT and to evaluate the optimal therapy for sex induction in girls with TS.Method: We present a retrospective, longitudinal study over the past two deca...

Objective: The study was to detect the proper regimen of estrogen in HRT in girls with TS.Method: We conducted a retrospective, longitudinal study with 76 girls with TS from The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University over the past two decades.Results: The investigation time was 3.00 (2.00, 4.66) yrs. The uterine volume grew significantly till B4 stage when compared wit...

Background: Nutritional rickets is a disorder of defective chondrocyte differentiation and mineralization of the growth plate and osteoid due to vitamin D deficiency with or without low calcium intake in growing children. Maternal Vitamin D deficiency and exclusive breastfeeding without supplementation are the most frequent causes of rickets in the infancy. Vitamin D deficiency is still a problem in Sri Lanka in spite of sun shine throughout the year. We present a case series ...

Introduction: The physiological process by which vitamin D regulates calcium and phosphorus metabolism, the major mineral constituents of bone tissue, is by far very well understood. However, the clinical implementation of vitamin D deficiency on bone fragility in childhood remains controversial.Objective: The aim of this case-control study is to investigate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among Lebanese children who experienced a ‘low-energy...