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ey0021.13-15 | Identifying Health Disparities and Improving Access to Healthcare | ESPEYB21

13.15. The I-CAH registry: a platform for international collaboration for improving knowledge and clinical care in congenital adrenal hyperplasia

X Tseretopoulou , J Bryce , M Chen , M McMillan , AK Lucas-Herald , SR Ali , SF Ahmed

Brief Summary: The authors describe the development and utility of an international collaborative database in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). I-CAH serves as a tool for benchmarking clinical care and supporting research and development of novel therapies.Rare disease registries can form the basis of best practice guidelines and allow for monitoring of new drugs and therapeutic interventions. The I-CAH Registry was developed as an international plat...

ey0019.6-4 | Co-morbidities associated with DSD | ESPEYB19

6.4. Growth, puberty and testicular function in boys born small for gestational age with a nonspecific disorder of sex development

LJW Tack , der Straaten S van , S Riedl , A Springer , PM Holterhus , NC Hornig , Z Kolesinska , M Niedziela , F Baronio , A Balsamo , SE Hannema , A Nordenstrom , S Poyrazoglu , FF Darendeliler , R Grinspon , R Rey , F Aljuraibah , J Bryce , F Ahmed , R Tadokoro-Cuccaro , I Hughes , G Guaragna-Filho , AT Maciel-Guerra , G Guerra-Junior , M Cools

Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2022 Feb;96(2):165-174. PMID: 34668586, doi: 10.1111/cen.14614.Brief Summary: This retrospective case-control study used data from the international DSD registry to investigate the long-term outcomes of males born small for gestational age (SGA) with hypospadias/DSD. A large cohort of 179 boys (115 males born SGA; 64 appropriate for gestational age) was investigated for growt...

ey0017.8-17 | Food for Thought | ESPEYB17

8.17. Plasma renin measurements are unrelated to mineralocorticoid replacement dose in patients with primary adrenal insufficiency

R Pofi , A Prete , V Thornton-Jones , J Bryce , SR Ali , Ahmed S Faisal , A Balsamo , F Baronio , A Cannuccia , A Guven , T Guran , F Darendeliler , C Higham , W Bonfig , L de Vries , TASS Bachega , MC Miranda , BB Mendonca , V Iotova , M Korbonits , NP Krone , R Krone , A Lenzi , W Arlt , RJ Ross , AM Isidori , JW Tomlinson

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020; 105(1): dgz055. PMID: 31613957.Mineralocorticoid (MC) replacement therapy along with glucocorticoid (GC) replacement is crucial to avoid life-threating adrenal crises in Addison´s disease (AD) and in classical CAH (1–3). MC is administered with the aim of achieving plasma renin concentration (PRC) within the upper limit of ...