Endocrine Abstracts

Background: ROHHAD (rapid-onset obesity with hypoventilation, hypothalamic, autonomic dys-regulation) syndrome is an uncommon disease with fatal outcome. Rapidly progressive obesity in early childhood along with altered hypothalamic and autonomic function and hypoventilation are characteristic features. Neuroendocrine tumors complicate approximately 40% of the ROHHAD cases (ROHHAD-NET). Early diagnosis of this extreme rare disease is hampered by the absence of...