Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology

ea0024p4 | (1) | BSPED2010

Neonatal adrenal suppression from maternal steroid use: A retrospective case note study

Ho S , Petkar R , Avatapalle B , Coombs R

Introduction: Infants born to mothers on antenatal steroid medication may develop adrenal suppression postnatally which can be potentially life-threatening. However, the incidence is unknown and screening for at risk infants is not universal.Aim: The aim of our study was to review the outcome of infants born to mothers on antenatal steroids.Method: We retrospectively reviewed our neonatal “paediatric alerts” for mothers o...

ea0024p29 | (1) | BSPED2010

Cardiac abnormalities in children with congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI)

Petkar AS , Ciotti G , Rigby L , Patel L , Ehtisham S , Clayton P E , Banerjee I , Skae M , Didi M , Blair J

Congenital hyperinsulinism of Infancy (CHI) can be associated with cardiac problems such as septal hypertrophy and reversible hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Breitweser et al. 1980, Harris et al. 1992); however, the prevalence and range of cardiac abnormalities in CHI has not been well investigated.Aims and methods: With National Research Ethics Service approval and consent, we retrospectively reviewed the prevalence of cardiac abnormalities in 48 children ...