Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: A diet plan, meals with suitable glycaemic index and sophisticated insulin delivery are used for balanced sacharides–insulin intake. In specific real day-to-day life situations patients must break their activities. Urgency to east in socially inappropriate time harm their lives, especially in young children with diabetes. Night hypoglycaemia, a parental fear of insufficient snack in nursery, sports with prolonged race periods, etc. are among these situations...

Introduction: Thyroid imaging is of proven help in establishing a diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism in newly referred infants. Radio-isotope and/or ultrasound imaging is commonly used; each has weaknesses but have complimentary strengths and thus have been used in combination in our centre since 1999. We undertook a retrospective review and analysis of ultrasound imaging in infants with proven thyroid ectopia to re-examine the diagnoses.Patients and...

Background: Homozygous mutations in STAT5B result in GH insensitivity and immune dysfunction. Heterozygous dominant negative mutations have not been described.Aims and objectives: To assess STAT5B sequence in children selected for a phenotype suggestive of Stat5b deficiency. To further characterize genomic STAT5B variants in two families.Methods: Selection of children from a tertiary Paediatric Endocrine ...