Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To evaluate clinical presentation and thyroid dysfunction types in children with thyromegaly.Patients and methods: Thirty-nine children were referred to endocrinologist examination because of thyromegaly. Assessment of clinical history, physical examination, auxological data pubertal staging and complete evaluation of basal thyroid function were carried out in all children. Thyroid autoantibodies, urinary iodine excretion (UIE) and ultrasound examin...

Background: The most striking change in diabetes over recent years has been the convergence of previously distinctive phenotypes. Recently diagnosed children are younger, taller and with greater BM. Pediatric endocrinologists are facing with children presenting mixed signs of both diabetes types. So called hybrid diabetes, or type 1½ has insulin resistance in type 1 phenotype and vice versa autoimmunity in obese children.Patients and methods: Ten ch...