ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Aug;32(4):551–573.This review provides a state of the art in the field of hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycemia (HH). The physiology of insulin secretion is discussed followed by the classification of the different subtypes of HH and then a detailed description of all the monogenic forms of HH. Novel forms of HH, such as...

Stem Cell Res. 2021 Jul;54:102433. doi: 10.1016/j.scr.2021.102433. PMID: 34171785.Brief Summary: This study generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from a patient with permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PNDM) due to Fanconi-Bickel syndrome. This iPSC line provides a novel human cell model to understand the pathophysiology of FBS and diabetes mellitus and for the potential of dev...

To read the full abstract: Int J Mol Sci. 2019 May 27;20(10). pii: E2590. doi: 10.3390/ijms20102590. PMID:31137773.Ion channels and transporters play essential roles in excitable cells, including cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle cells, neurons, and endocrine cells. In pancreatic beta-cells, KATPchannels link the metabolic signals generated inside the cell to changes in the beta-cell membra...

To read the full abstract: Mol Genet Genomic Med., 2019 Oct;7(10):e00753. doi: 10.1002/mgg3.753. Epub 2019 Aug 23. PMID: 31441606The unique population in the State of Qatar comprises over 2.6 million people who derived primarily from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and South Asia regions. Around 15% are indigenous Qataris of Arabian Peninsula ancestries, who have also immigrated to the St...

Brief summary: The authors provide the first description of antagonistic hormone mutations as the cause of congenital disease in humans. The paper describes detailed characterizations of two novel, antagonistic leptin mutations underlying a formerly unrecognized form of congenital leptin dysfunction and delineate the challenges these mutations pose to the diagnosis and therapy of the disease.After the initial description of biologically inactive leptin v...

To read the full abstract: J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Aug;28(8):2529-2539The association of hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (HH) and polycystic kidneys has not been reported before. Here, the authors studied 17 patients from 11 different families and found that all patients had a combination HH and polycystic kidneys. The HH was mild and some patients required diazoxide therapy. In contrast the poly...

To read the full abstract: Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2018 Apr;14(4):229-249Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a growth disorder characterized by neonatal hypoglycemia, macrosomia, macroglossia, hemihyperplasia, omphalocele, embryonal tumors (e.g., Wilms tumor, hepatoblastoma, neuroblastoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma), visceromegaly, adrenocortical cytomegaly, renal abnormalities (e.g., medullary dysplas...