ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Brief Summary: this longitudinal study found no statistical difference between boys and girls regarding the timing of increase in nocturnal luteinizing hormone concentrations.Puberty results from a gradual increase in GnRH secretion, that can be monitored by urinary gonadotropin measurements. Timing of normal puberty, initially described by Marshal and Tanner, is characterized by an important individual variability in humans1,2. The difference...

Brief summary: This paper describes 18 patients with bi-allelic leptin deficiency (LEP, n=11) or leptin receptor deficiency (LEPR, n=7), including 10 new cases and two novel variants. In addition, in a review of the literature (until July 2022), the authors identified n=75 patients living with LEP deficiency and n=90 with LEPR deficiency (n=152 included for comparison between groups).<p class=...

Brief Summary: This retrospective, multicenter study examined patients who were diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) through the newborn screening (NSP) program in Turkey. It assessed the prevalence of temporary congenital hypothyroidism (TCH), examined the causes of permanent congenital hypothyroidism (PCH), and identified laboratory and clinical indicators to distinguish TCH and PCH.Congenital hypothyroidism (CH), the most prevalent endocrine ...

Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2020;8:594–605. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30153-4.Groenenweg et al. present the so far largest retrospective multicentre cohort study on 151 patients with 73 different MCT8 (SLC16A2) mutations to compare and describe in detail the phenotypic spectrum and the disease course of MCT8 deficiency. The careful description of presenting cl...