Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Limited data support concerns that corticosteroid use in pregnancy, for maternal health reasons, can suppress the neonatal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis. We sought to determine if neonates born to mothers on high-dose steroids are at risk of adrenal suppression.Methodology: Our tertiary neonatal unit guidance advises that babies born to mothers receiving ≥7.5 mg/day prednisolone for 28 consecutive days in the 3rd trimester u...

Background: Measuring testicular volume (TV) by orchidometer is a standard method of pubertal staging in boys. A paucity of evidence exists as to its inter and intra-user reliability and the impact of clinicians’ gender, training and experience on the accuracy of measurements. Specifically engineered prosthetic models of different size testes were developed to investigate the reliability of TV estimation.Method: The study was conducted over the thre...