ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: EMBO Mol Med. 2017 Oct;9(10):1379-1397[Comments on 7.10 and 7.11] During embryonic development, GnRH neurons originate in the olfactory placode and migrate through the nasal mesenchyme using the olfactory/vomeronasal axons as a scaffold to reach their final destination in the basal forebrain1,2. Th...

Brief summary: This 12-months randomized, controlled, phase 3 study compared the efficacy and safety of once-weekly Somatrogon 0.66 mg/kg/week with once-daily somatropin in prepubertal children with GHD. The efficacy of once-weekly Somatrogon was noninferior to once-daily somatropin, with similar safety and tolerability profiles.Somatrogon (MOD-4023) is a long-acting rhGH recently approved by the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of children wi...

Sci Rep. 2020 Dec 9; 10: 21507. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33299020/This cross-sectional study of 246 childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (cALL) survivors aimed to analyze the relationships between various blood biomarkers and cardiovascular risk, and to test the link between endotoxemia and cardiometabolic complications. A high leptin-adiponectin ratio was associated with obesity, ...

To read the full abstract: Circulation 2017;136:359-366The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Panel on integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in Children and Adolescents recommended a universal screening approach that would include one-time testing of all children aged 9-11 years for dyslipidemia. This recommendation has raised controversy regarding t...

To read the full abstract: Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2017;6:CD012651Here, the authors report an update of a Cochrane review, which was first published in 2003, and last updated in 2009. However, given the complexity of the evidence, the current update is now split into 6 reviews addressing diff...

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med. 2019;380:1316–1325.This large multicenter randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial, in euthyroid women with thyroid peroxidase antibodies and a history of miscarriage or infertility, found no effect of levothyroxine substitution from before conception to the end of pregnancy on likelihood of live birth.In 2011, ...

Brief summary: This review article offers an update on knowledge on prophylactic gonadectomy in differences of sex development (DSDs) and evaluates the latest existing clinical evidence, which is generally limited, on risk of gonadal neoplasia potential in each group of DSDs.On average 15% of DSD patients with Y chromosome material predispose to gonadal neoplasms especially gonadal germ cell tumors (GGCTs); the overall risk ranges between 0.8% and 40% de...

Thyroid. 2020;30:1732–1744. doi: 10.1089/thy.2019.0825.This study is of importance, revealing a relevant clinical problem in patients under long-term levothyroxine (LT4) substitution and challenging the concept that all hypothyroid patients can be well controlled with LT4 monotherapy.Lacámara et al. present a small but elegant clinical study describi...

To read the full abstract: Psychosom Med. 2019, Sep; 81: 629–40. doi: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31232913The cross-sectional European dsd-LIFE questionnaire study assessed self-reported health outcomes, including psychiatric diagnoses and symptoms, sexuality (1) and body image (2) in 1040 adolescents and adults with DSD from six European countries. It compared mental health...

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020;105(2):dgaa465. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa465. PMID: 32685970This study aimed to identify potential (epi)genetic causes of short stature in 20 SGA children (13 boys; 7 girls) treated with rhGH. Exome sequencing, single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array (both performed in the whole cohort) and genome-wide methylation analysis (performed in a random subset of 10 ...