ESPE Abstracts

Vitamin D supplementation is recommended for breastfed infants as primary prevention of vitamin D deficiency and nutritional rickets. Globally, the most commonly recommended dosage of vitamin D is 400 IU/day for healthy breastfed infants. Whether there are benefits of higher dosages of vitamin D to infant bone mass and body composition has been investigated. The objective of this presentation is to review the evidence from randomized controlled trials conducted in healthy term...

Introduction: Vitamin D defciency is a common health concern among all children world wide.together with the rapidly increased prevalence of diabetes mellitus\.This study was conducted to determine if diabetes is associated with increased risk of vitamin D deficiencydy examination the influences of diabetes effecting status on specific patients disease characteristics in regards to vitamin D level among children from saudi arabia.Methods: All retrospecti...

Background: Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT) is the most common autoimmune disorder. There are few studies that analysed the relationship between HT and serum vitamin D.Objective and hypotheses: It has been suggested that vitamin D acts as an immunomodulator in autoimmune diseases such as HT Therefore we planned to investigate vitamin D status in euthyroid girls with HT.Method: The study group consisted of 66 euthyroid pubertal girls rec...

Introduction: The evolution of Hashimoto Thyroiditis (HT) has been investigated by several studies both in pediatric and adult age. However, there are limited data on the progression of the disease from childhood to adulthood.Objective: Aim of the study was to describe the evolution of thyroid function in children with HT from childhood to young adulthood.Patients and Methods: The diagnosis of HT was defined by the presence of anti...

Introduction: Obesity and vitamin D deficiency are global public health problems. There is evidence of a reciprocal link between vitamin D deficiency and obesity. Both conditions are risk factors for the development of chronic diseases, primarily insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus type 2, and contribute to a decrease in physical fitness (PF). The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation on PF of obese children dur...

Introduction: No consensus on vitamin D (VitD) deficiency screening in children and adolescents exists.Aim: To evaluate a sample of patients in whom VitD dosing was performed and determine the rationale for this assessment.Methods: Retrospective, longitudinal study of pediatric patients, from a Portuguese tertiary hospital, who had at least two 25(OH)D level blood sampling between ...

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 ...

Objective: To present a patient with hypercalcemia caused by a parathyroid adenoma and a deletion of the VDR gene.Case clinic: The case is that of a 13-year-old male who presented with hypercalcemia, muscle weakness, nephrocalcinosis, two pathological fractures and a family history of nephrocalcinosis. Physical examination was unremarkable, except the presence of a fracture of the left femur. Laboratory findings: Total s...

We report on a 17-year-old patient with hypoparathyroidism which was noticed during the diagnosis of a first renal colic a year and a half ago. At that time, a prevesical ureter stone on the right could be depicted sonographically, which disappeared spontaneously. Initially calcium levels in serum and urine were reported to be normal. However, a slight hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria as well as high normal vitamin D levels without vitamin D substitution were detected intermit...

Objective: Vitamin deficient (VDD) rickets can manifest with skeletal (hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, elevated serum alkaline phosphatase and defective bone mineralization) and extra-skeletal findings. There are certain number of case reports and limited number of small scale studies reporting dilated cardiomyopathy due to VDD rickets.The aim of the present study is to evaluate the clinical, biochemical and echocardiographic features of...