Endocrine Abstracts

The aim of this presentation is to build on the discussion that developed at the BSPED Nurse Meeting in 2014.Consensus grew around the importance of standardisation of the advice our adrenal insufficient patients receive, in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle and prevent the risk of adrenal crisis. The evidence suggests that there may be a diversity in the management of adrenal insufficiency within the UK. Despite appropriate education, adrenal crisis...

Background: Many premature infants experience significant early growth failure in the weeks following delivery. Subsequent catch-up growth has traditionally been assumed to have occurred by early childhood. Most studies have focused on cohorts defined by birth weight, for example, <1500 g resulting in disproportionate numbers of small for gestational age (SGA) infants as opposed to those small solely as a consequence of prematurity. Few studies have examined growth compare...

Background: Currently we investigate children with possible GH deficiency, but who are healthy, with a normal short stature screen, and without suspicion of other pituitary dysfunction (‘simple short stature’), with full dynamic anterior pituitary function tests (APFT). An abnormal GH peak leads to a second GH stimulation test. We studied the cost implications of only performing a GH stimulation test initially, followed by full APFT if the initial GH peak was low, to...