Publications by authors named "Bezlepkina O"

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  • - Cowden syndrome, caused by mutations in the PTEN gene, increases the risk of various tumors due to disrupted cell cycle regulation, leading to unchecked cell growth throughout a person's life.
  • - A clinical case presented discusses a 7-year-old patient with typical features of Cowden syndrome, including macrocephaly and skin manifestations like trichilemmomas and keratosis, alongside benign and malignant tumors.
  • - Common malignancies associated with Cowden syndrome are breast, thyroid, colorectal, renal cell, and endometrial cancers, with thyroid cancer often developing early in childhood, necessitating regular screenings for affected individuals.
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Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is the most common form of diabetes mellitus in childhood, where, unlike in adults, it accounts for more than 90% of all cases of diabetes. The constant change in the epidemiology of T1DM with significant differences in populations and regions requires systematic data collection and analysis for timely monitoring of T1DM trends.

Aim: Analysis of the main epidemiological indicators of T1DM in children in the Russian Federation over the past 10 years - from 2014 to 2023.

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  • - X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is a serious genetic disorder affecting one in 17,000 newborn boys, often leading to adrenal insufficiency (AI), which can be life-threatening if not treated promptly.
  • - A study of 66 male patients diagnosed with primary AI due to X-ALD was conducted in Moscow from 2014 to 2022 to understand the diagnostic and treatment aspects of this condition.
  • - The research found that the average age for the first signs of X-ALD was 6.6 years, with AI often detected as early as 1.5 years, showing variations in disease manifestation and age of diagnosis among different forms of X-AL
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  • Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a rare endocrine disorder in children, characterized by excessive parathyroid hormone secretion, leading to elevated blood calcium levels, and may remain undiagnosed due to non-specific symptoms like nausea and abdominal pain.
  • A study of 49 children diagnosed with PHPT revealed common initial symptoms including fatigue and pain, with diagnosis occurring around age 15, and high levels of parathyroid hormone and calcium being prevalent among patients.
  • Genetic analysis found mutations in about 32.7% of cases, with MEN1 mutations being most common, and many patients also presented with various forms of thyroid adenomas upon surgical examination.
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  • IgG4-related disease is a rare chronic condition characterized by infiltration of tissues, fibrosis, and elevated IgG4 levels, affecting less than 1 in 100,000 people annually.
  • It was recognized as a distinct disease in 2001 and can impact various organs, including its association with Riedel's thyroiditis established in 2010.
  • Riedel's thyroiditis is an exceptionally rare inflammatory thyroid disease with complex diagnosis, and there have been fewer than 300 reported cases globally, including only two in children.
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DICER1 syndrome is a rare genetic disorder with the progressive development of malignant and non-malignant diseases in childhood. The cause of this syndrome is a dusfunction of the endoribonuclease DICER, which plays an important role in the processing of microRNAs with subsequent regulation of the control of the expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Clinical manifestations of dyseropathies is very different and may include both endocrine manifestations - multinodular goiter, differentiated thyroid cancers, ovarian stromal tumors, pituitary blastoma, and non-endocrine formations - pleuropulmonary blastoma, cystic nephroma, pineoblastoma.

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  • * This advancement led to extensive research on the efficacy and safety of rGH, focusing on optimal usage and dosing strategies.
  • * Long-term clinical experience with somatropin has provided valuable insights into its effectiveness for children with somatotropic insufficiency and its effects on different organs and systems, broadening its potential applications.
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of autosomal recessive disorders requiring lifelong glucocorticoid replacement (GC) therapy. Lack of GC therapy leads to precocious puberty in boys, heterosexual development in girls, accelerated bone maturation and short final height in both sexes. In adolescence, the lack of GC therapy is the cause of menstrual disorders in girls and the development of TART in boys, as a result reducing the reproductive potential in both sexes.

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Background: Adipomyokines are synthesized and secreted into the bloodstream by cells of both muscle and adipose tissue. They can have both a negative metabolic effect, acting as pro-inflammatory adipokines in obesity, and a positive one, increasing in response to physical exertion in the form of myokines.

Aim: To study the features of adipocytokine secretion in children with constitutionally exogenous obesity.

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Graves' disease (GD) is the leading cause of hyperthyroidism in pediatric patients. Radioactive iodine therapy (RAIT) is widely used to treat GD. However, it is still unclear exactly what determines the efficacy of RAIT in childhood and adolescence.

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Background: The majority of Kallmann patients have anosmia or hyposmia. This is how the disease is diagnosed. Some of them don't have such complaints but olfactory dysfunction is diagnosed via olfactometry.

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Background: In 90% cases of girls and 25-60% cases of boys the cause of gonadotropin-dependent precocious puberty (PP) is unclear. Up to 25-27.5% of gonadotropin-dependent PP cases are monogenic and suggest autosomal-dominant inheritance with incomplete sex-dependent penetrance.

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Background: Loss-of-function mutations in the TSH receptor gene (TSHR) (NP_000360.2) are the potential causes of thyroid dysgenesis in patients with congenital hypothyroidism. Heterozygous variants of the TSHR gene lead to partial resistance to TSH, homozygous and compound heterozygous variants have been shown to cause CH due to thyroid hypoplasia or TSH resistance.

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Background: Gonadotropin therapy in boys with congenital isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism helps to increase testes volume and induce spermatogenesis in comparison with testosterone therapy. However, difficulties with dose titration, partial therapy success, absence of generally accepted regimen protocols don't allow to use this therapy in order to induce puberty in adolescents with Kallmann syndrome or normosmic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of combination hormonal replacement therapy via human chorionic gonadotropin and recombinant follicle stimulation hormone in adolescents with congenital isolated normosmic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and with Kallmann syndromeMATERIALS AND METHODS: This is an open single-center prospective non-controlled study.

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The prevalence of obesity and related metabolic disorders in children and adolescents in the Russian Federation is steadily increasing, which requires healthcare professionals to search for new methods of treatment and prevention. The treatment of childhood obesity should be based on a comprehensive approach, including diet therapy, increased physical activity, behavioral therapy and psychological support. To increase the effectiveness of the formation of new eating habits and proper eating behavior, as well as to increase the adherence of children and adolescents to treatment, drug therapy of obesity is used, aimed primarily at reducing appetite.

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Background: Adrenocortical adenomas are often followed with steroid hormones hyperproduction, and therefore determination of their concentration plays an important role in the differential diagnosis of adrenal diseases. Steroid profiling by tandem mass spectrometry is one of the main diagnostic methods in steroidogenesis characterization. Currently plasma and urinary steroid profiling is of particular interest in differential diagnosis and subtyping patients with adrenocortical adenomas.

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Donohue syndrome (DS), also called Leprechaunism, is the most severe form of insulin resistance associated with biallelic mutations in INSR gene (OMIM: 147670). The approximate incidence of this syndrome is 1 per 1000000 births. Patients are present with typical clinical features such as intrauterine growth retardation, facial dysmorphism, severe metabolic disturbances, hepatomegaly and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Background: Myokines are synthesized by myocytes and released into the bloodstream in response to muscle fiber contraction. They have a positive effect on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, muscle mass growth, osteogenesis, increase tissue sensitivity to insulin, counteract inflammation of adipose tissue. The study of their secretion in response to physical activity (FA) can help to personalize the therapy of obesity.

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Itsenko-Cushing's disease is a rare, multisystem disease characterized by the presence of endogenous central hypercortisolism due to an ACTH-secreting brain tumor. The frequency of Itsenko-Cushing's disease in adulthood is 0.7-2.

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Background: Cushing's disease (CD) is a rare disorder of a persistent cortisol excess caused by ACTH-secreting pituitary tumor (corticotropinoma). Transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) is a treatment of choice for СD, which effectiveness range is from 70 to 90%. Recurrence rate after successful treatment is about 25%.

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Background: Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) with glucometers provides only a snapshot of the glycemic profile and is accompanied by significant psychological discomfort and pain, especially in children. Flash Glucose Monitoring System - FreeStyle Libre (FSL) overcomes many of the barriers associated with glucose measurement and improves metabolic control.

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of FSL in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in terms of glycemic control, episodes of severe hypoglycemia (SH) and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

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Background: BACKGROUND: The frequency of ectopia of thyroid gland among all types of dysgenesis varies from 30 to 70%, its most common localization is the root of the tongue. Otorhinolaryngologists, oncologists, pediatricians can take lingual ectopia for hypertrophy of the lingual tonsil or fibroma of the tongue root, which leads to unreasonable surgical treatment. Thyroid scintigraphy plays a key role in the diagnosis of ectopia.

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Background: Hyperthyreoidism due to Graves' disease is a rare disorder in pediatric practice. There is 2 treatment options in Graves' disease: medical treatment and definitive treatment, including surgery and radioactive iodine. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages.

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Congenital hypothyroidism is an important issue of pediatric endocrinology at which timely diagnosis and treatment can prevent the development of severe cases of the disease. The developed clinical guidelines are a working tool for a practicing physician. The target audience is pediatric endocrinologists and pediatricians.

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The precocious puberty is an urgent problem of pediatric endocrinology characterized by clinical and pathogenetic heterogeneity. The appearance of secondary sex characteristics before the age of 8 years in girls and 9 years in boys requires timely diagnosis and the appointment of pathogenetically justified treatment in order to achieve the target indicators of final growth and prevent social deprivation. The developed clinical guidelines are the main working tool of the practitioner.

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