Foundation Anniversary Meeting and 25^th Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Endocrinology, 2003

Table of Contents

Foreword  ............379

PLENARY LECTURES

The Future of Pediatric Endocrinology

A. Ferrández Longás, Spain  ..............381

Genetics of Growth Retardation

J.A. Phillips III, USA . ............ 385

IMPLICATIONS FOR ADULTHOOD AND THERAPEUTIC OPTIMIZATION IN CERTAIN PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOPATHIES

Therapeutic Optimization of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Children and Adolescents

L. Castro Feijóo, R. Peinó, M. Lage, C. Quinteiro, L. Loidi, J. Barreiro, P. Cabanas, C. Diéguez, F. Casanueva and M. Pombo, Spain  ............401

Childhood-onset Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Long-term Outcome and Optimization of Therapy

J.I. Labarta, E. Bello, M. Ruiz-Echarri, C. Rueda, P. Martul, E. Mayayo and A. Ferrández Longás, Spain  ............411

Implications for Adulthood and Therapeutic Optimization in Diabetes Mellitus

M. Oyarzabal, M. Chueca and M.J. Lopez, Spain  ...........423

Optimization of Treatment in Turner’s Syndrome

R. Gracia Bouthelier, A. Oliver Iguacel, I. Gonzalez Casado and A. Alcalde de Alvaré, Spain ..........427

INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION

Fetal Growth Regulation and Intrauterine Growth Retardation

A. Carrascosa, D. Yeste, A. Copil, L. Audí, M. Gusinyé, E. Vicens-Calvet and M. Clemente, Spain  ...........435

Study of Genetic Expression of Intrauterine Growth Factors IGF-I and EGFR in Placental Tissue from Pregnancies with Intrauterine Growth Retardation

M.T. Calvo, A. Romo, J.I. Gutiérrez, E. Relaño, E. Barrio and A. Ferrández Longás, Spain  ...........445

Intrauterine Growth Retardation: Study of Placental Apoptosis

E. Barrio, M.T. Calvo, A. Romo, R. Alvarez, J.I. Gutierrez, J. Naval and A. Ferrández Longás, Spain  .......... 451

Psychomotor and Intellectual Development of Children Born with Intrauterine Growth Retardation (IUGR)

B. Puga, A. Ferrández Longás, R. García Romero, E. Mayayo and J.I. Labarta, Spain  ..............457

Small for Gestational Age (SGA): Endocrine and Metabolic Consequences and Effects of Growth Hormone Treatment

A.C.S. Hokken-Koelega, W.J. De Waal, T.C.J. Sas, Y. Van Pareren and N.J.T. Arends, The Netherlands .........  463

ADOLESCENCE

Adolescence Today

M. Magaña, Spain .............. 471

New Concepts in Anorexia Nervosa

M.T. Muñoz and J. Argente, Spain  ..........473

The Need for Specialized Adolescence Units

M. Rodríguez and J.I. Labarta, Spain  .............481

Child-onset Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adulthood. Transfer of Patients from Pediatric to Adult Endocrinology Units

R. Albero, P. Trincado, A. Sanz, J. Playán and J. Acha, Spain  485

SELECTED ORAL ABSTRACTS ...........  495

SELECTED POSTER ABSTRACTS ... ...... 519

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