Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: Attention Deficit Disorder & Hyperactivity Syndrome (ADHD) is identify attention deficit,impulsivity hyperactivity before the age of seven years old. ADHD is a serious disease which could cause corruption of daily lifetime and needed to be taken psychostimulant drugs. This case brings on that these kind of drugs can have unexplored side effects. In this study; it was reported 7 precocious puberty (PP) cases which used methylphenidate due to ADHD...

Introduction: Neurologic symptoms due to autoimmune encephalopathy related to autoimmune hyperthyroidism (AEAH) cases are very rare in childhood. The reason why hyperthyroidism causes this situation is still unknown. In this case we discussed the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of a case with choreoathetosis in the review of literature.Case: 15 years old female admitted to hospital with the complaint of nervousness, discomfort for last 3 weeks. There ...

Introduction: Childhood obesity has become an important health problem nowadays. Intracranial lesions (IC) can affect the hypothalamic - hypophyseal axis depending on the localization of the lesion and lead to hypophyseal hormone deficiencies, especially growth hormone. Although IC lesions are important in the etiology of obesity, There’s limited data in the literature about this subject. Aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence of IC lesions and their role in clini...

Background: Objective: Non syndromic monogenic obesity is a rare cause of early onset severe obesity in the childhood period. This form may not be distinguishable from other forms of severe obesity without genetic analysis, particularly if patients do not exibit any physical abnormalities or developmental delay. The aim of this study was to screen 41 different obesity-related genes in children with nonsyndromic early onset severe obesity.<p class="abstext"...