ESPE Abstracts

Background: Vitamin D (25OHD) insufficiency is becoming a public health issue. Adequate 25OHD status during pregnancy may influence the health status of the offspring.Objective: To evaluate the levels of 25OHD from gestation to 12 years, assessing seasonality and intake.Material and methods: Data were obtained from 485 pregnant mothers recruited in Asturias between 2004-2007 and th...

Purpose: MODY is a monogenic diabetes with autosomal dominant inheritance that usually occurs in adolescence or young adulthood. It constitutes 1% of diabetes cases in childhood. The diagnosis of MODY is very difficult due to genetic heterogeneity, rarity, and clinical overlap with other diabetes types. In recent years, the diagnosis of MODY has become easier with genetic developments. On the other hand, misinterpretation of results can cause confusion. In thi...

Introduction: Rabson-Mendenhall Syndrome (RMS) is an autosomal recessive, extremely rare, serious insulin resistance syndrome that occurs as a result of mutation in the insulin receptor (INSR) gene. Pathogenic variants in the INSR gene cause a broad spectrum of inherited insulin resistance syndromes. Here, a male case who presented with the complaint of diffuse acanthosis nigricans and was diagnosed with RMS is shared. Case Repor...

Aim: to assess and follow-up anthropometric and biochemical parameters in patients with abdominal obesity after a lifestyle intervention.Patients, Material and Methods: 122 children and adolescents with abdominal obesity, aged 7 to 16 years, were included in a control randomized intervention study (NCT031472). Abdominal obesity was diagnosed using the waist circumference. The intervention included an intensive phase duri...

Background & Aims: Hypoglycaemia is a constant threat for all patients with congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) and, left untreated, can lead to neurological damage and impaired development. To improve glycaemic monitoring, self-monitoring-blood-glucose (SMBG) is increasingly being replaced by Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) with potential to identify illness patterns and treatment responses although with unproven benefit for patients and families. Explor...

The phenotype in male individuals with a mosaic sex chromosomal abnormality is heterogenous, but ambiguous genitalia, delayed puberty, disturbed spermatogenesis, and short stature are frequently seen. Genetic investigation in boys with idiopathic/isolated short stature usually includes SHOX gene analysis (sequencing and copy number detection by MLPA), genome wide array analysis, and/or whole exome sequencing (WES). In the Netherlands, conventional karyotyping is not part of th...

Objective: We aimed to examine the auxological findings of the girls diagnosed with idiopathic central precocious puberty (CPP) at the end of the Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs (GnRHa) treatment and to investigate the effect of related factors on the height gain of those patients.Methods: This study was designed as single-center, descriptive, cross-sectional retrospective study. A total of 43 patients who were di...

Introduction: Thyrotoxicosis is a clinical manifestation that arises due to excessive amounts of circulating thyroid hormone in the body with a subsequent hypermetabolic state. The condition has multiple aetiologies of which Graves’ disease accounts for the most cases in children and adolescence. Symptoms in children are often more obscure than those seen in adults which may contribute to diagnostic delay of the condition. The aim of the study is to asse...

Background: Sexual maturation is closely linked to growth, suggesting common pathways between the reproductive development and the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor-I (GH/IGF-I) axis. IGF-I bioavailability is regulated by Pregnancy associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A), Pregnancy associated plasma protein-A2 (PAPP-A2) and Stanniocalcin 2 (STC2). A large genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified PAPP-A, PAPP-A2 and STC2 to represent loci strongly a...

Introduction: Differential diagnosis of thyroid hormone resistance (beta) and TSHoma should be made in patients with high free thyroxine (f-T4) and free triiodothyronine (f-T3) and non-suppressed thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels. The aim of this study was to present the results of etiological research in a patient with Down syndrome who was clinically euthyroid and had high levels of f-T4, f-T3, normal TSH levels.Case</st...