ESPE Abstracts

We have examined a female child patient aged about 3 years and 8months old to confirm the diagnosis of Schmid metaphyseal chondrodysplasia (SMCD) at the Genetics out-patient department, Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University. The child was diagnosed with the abnormal phenotypic characteristics who showed short-limbed dwarfism, bowed legs, waddling gait and genu varum. Based on the child's family history, during the early stages, the child was misdiagnos...

Background: Tamoxifen is a selective estrogen receptor modulator，administrated in girls with precocious puberty such as McCune-Albright syndrome.Objective: To explore the effect of tamoxifen on the linear growth of precocious pubertal female rats.Method: At 16-22 day of age, 16 precocious pubertal female rats(induced by 300 μg danazol s.c. at 5-day old), were randomized...

Background: Mandibular hypoplasia, deafness, progeroid features, and lipodystrophy (MDPL) syndrome is a genetic disorder which was first recognized in 2010. MDPL syndrome is comprised of mandibular hypoplasia, deafness, progeroid features, lipodystrophy, hypogonadism and metabolic disorders. It is caused by an autosomal dominant mutation in the polymerase delta 1 (POLD1) gene, with <30 genetically confirmed cases to date.Cas...

Objective: To know more about the etiology and mechanism of antibody-negative diabetes, screening MODY pathogenicity genes and deepening understanding of islet autoantibody-negative diabetes, so as to individualized precision treatment.Methods: A total of 31 subjects with diabetes who had negative islet autoantibodies and C-peptide ≥0.3 ng/ml were collected. Another group was the type 1 diabetes control group, After informed consent obtained patien...

Objective: To explore the value of continuous hemodiafiltration in rescuing children with severe diabetic ketoacidosis.Method: Two children with severe diabetic ketoacidosis were studied in regard to clinical manifestation, laboratory examination and treatment and of the relevant literature was reviewed.Result: Case 1 was a girl of 13 years 5 months old, who was diagnosed as ‘Type 1 diabetes mellitus, Diabetic ketoacidosis and...

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 ...

Though most ophthalmologic emphasis has been stressed on the influence of retinopathy on the young diabetic community, lesser known is the complication of cataract, which has resulted in more than half of the blindness worldwide. This study attempts to stratify the epidemiology and risk factors of cataract in the type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) population using data extracted from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) in Taiwan.A two-st...

Objective: Through the diagnosis and treatment of Uighur girl with adrenocortical adenoma, who was complain of short stature, to prompt pediatric endocrinologists pay attention to hypercortisolism in the diagnosis and treatment of children with short stature.Methods: With the case report of hypercortisolism in a Uighur child, to introduce the diagnosis and treatment of adrenocortical adenoma, presenting the clinical char...

The patient was a Chinese girl who born 40 weeks of gestation by caesarean section. Her birth weight was 2900g (10th–25th centile), birth length was 48cm (10th– 25thcentile). Both parents are in good health. The family history was unremarkable. She was first admitted to our hospital because of seizure afebrile at 6 months old. She presented discontinues generalized tonic-clonic seizures for 3~5minutes several times, it seemed that these onsets were not associate...

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 ...