ESPE Abstracts

Background: Dyslipidemia increases the frequency and severity of micro- and macro-vascular complications of type 1 diabetes.Objective and hypotheses: The present study aims to determine the prevalence of dyslipidemia and its association with clinical and laboratory findings in diabetic children and adolescents.Methods: The study included 202 children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Demographic data and laboratory findings wer...

Background: The familial type of isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) is characterized by a variable degree of growth restriction, low but detectable GH serum concentrations. The recessive type IA and IB, the autosomal-dominant type II, and X-linked recessive type III. Phenotype-genotype correlations are notoriously difficult to be established. Herein, we described the patient who has autosomal-dominant type II IGHD due to a novel GH1 mutation.Objec...

Background: It’s well known that overt hypothyroidism leads to weight and body fat content increase but there is limited data in the literature about the effect of subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) on body composition parameters.Objective and hypotheses: In our previous study body composition parameters were evaluated in patients with SH and it was concluded that trunk fat mass was increased in SH patients before any alterations in basal metabolism ra...

Background: Obesity prevalence among children increased worldwide in last three decades. Childhood onset obesity is associated with increased mortality and morbidity related to cardiovascular diseases during adulthood. Dyslipidemia has a fundamental role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases.Objective and hypotheses: This study is designed to evaluate the prevalence and related factors of dyslipidemia among obese children and adolescent.<p c...

Background: Van Wyk Grumbach (VWG) and Kocher Debre Semelaigne (KDS) syndromes are rare syndromes with clinical manifestation of hypothyroidism associated with precious pseudo puberty and myopathic pseudomuscular hypertrophy. We present two cases that have the characteristic of both VWGS and KDSS syndromes developed in association with a long-term untreated hypothyroidism.Case 1: Seventeen years old girl was referred to our hospital due to menstrual irre...

Background: Thyroid hormone resistance (THR) is an autosomal dominant, rare syndrome and result of the reduction sensitivity of target tissues to thyroid hormone. There is usually normal or slightly elevated TSH concentration with increase in serum fT3 and fT4 concentrations. The most common cause of resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is heterozygous thyroid hormone β (THR β) gene mutations. THR is defined by Refetoff et al. at 1967. THR mutati...

Background: Macro TSH is a high molecule weighed complex with low bioactivity that is comprised of TSH and anti-TSH antibodies. Potentiality of macro TSH should be kept in mind in clinically euthyroid and asymptomatic patients with normal free T4 and T3 levels and relatively high TSH levels. Diagnosis of macro TSH is suspected if polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitable TSH exceeds %75 and confirmed if high molecule weighed TSH is shown with gel filtration ...

Background: Turner syndrome (TS) is a common genetic disorder with an incidence of 1 in 2500 live births due to chromosomal errors resulting in monosomy for the X chromosome with or without mosaicism. Familial TS has been rarely reported. We report two families having TS.Methods: We report 6 patients with TS who had been referred to the Endocrinology department and Pediatric department at Hedi Chaker hospital, Sfax, Tuni...

Introduction: The production of ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) is associated with the production of reactive oxygen species modifying the metal-binding sites of albumin. IMA is considered a non-specific early biomarker in the evaluation of oxidative stress status. Cortisol is known to trigger anti-inflammatory actions through genomic and non-genomic pathways that eventually lead to decreased production of cytokines, chemokines, and inducible nitric oxide synt...

Introduction: Niemann Pick type B (NMP B) is a rare lysosomal storage disease caused by mutations in the SMPD1 gene. Typically, had normal height and weight. In this work, we report an unusual association of a Niemann Pick disease in a child with hypopituitarism.Case:We report the case of a young boy who was hospitalized at the age of 11, in Hematological Department for splenomegaly and polyadenopathies where the d...