ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

PrefaceFor this year’s chapter on ‘Adrenals’, we have searched the PubMed for articles on ‘adrenal’ or ‘steroidogenesis’ published in English between June 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021. Our search yielded more than 5,000 citations. We have examined all citations individually and selected the following collection of basic research and clinical articles. Whenever possible, we have avoided topics that have been discussed in the...

Preface: For this year’s chapter, we searched PubMed for articles on ‘adrenal’ or ‘steroidogenesis’ published in English between June 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022. Our search yielded more than 5,000 citations. We examined all citations individually and selected the following collection of basic research and clinical articles. Whenever possible, we have avoided topics that have been discussed in the Yearbook 2021, unless progress in the field has been incre...

Preface: For this year’s chapter on ‘Adrenals’, we have searched the PubMed for articles on ‘adrenal’ or ‘steroidogenesis’ published in English between June 1, 2019 and May 31, 2020. Our search yielded more than 5000 citations. We have examined all citations individually and selected the following collection of basic research and clinical articles. Whenever possible, we have avoided topics that have been discussed in the Yearbook 2019, unless...

Author for Correspondence: Evangelia Charmandari, MD, MSc, PhD, MRCP(UK), CCST(UK) Professor of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology First Department of Pediatrics National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School ‘Aghia Sophia’ Children’s Hospital Thivon and Papadiamantopoulou Street Athens, 11527, Greece Tel/Fax: +30-213-2013 384 Email:evangelia.charmandari@googlemail.com<p class="abst...

For this year’s chapter on ‘Adrenals’, we have searched the PubMed for articles on ‘adrenal’ or ‘steroidogenesis’ published in English between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023. Our search yielded more than 6,000 citations. We have examined all citations individually and selected the following collection of basic research and clinical articles. Whenever possible, we have avoided topics that have been discussed in the Yearbook 2022, unless progres...

Brief summary: This prospective observational cohort study determined leukocyte telomere length (LTL) in 76 patients with genetically confirmed CAH (83% classic CAH). LTL was shorter in patients with classic vs nonclassic CAH, in overtreated than in optimally treated patients, and patients receiving prednisolone compared with hydrocortisone.Telomeres are tandem repeats of a noncoding hexameric nucleotide sequence (5′-TTAGGG-3′) located at the...