Caracterización Clínica de la Pubertad Precoz de los pacientes atendidos en consulta externa de Endocrinología Pediátrica del Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil IESS los Ceibos durante el período de enero del 2019 a octubre del 2022.

Abstract

Introduction: Normally the onset of puberty occurs around 8 - 13 years in girls and between 9 - 14 years in boys, so it is important to know at what age there is the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics, complete gonadal and adrenal maturation, and the acceleration of growth before the mentioned chapter. Puberty in girls presents with bilateral premature thelarche and adrenarche, in boys with PPC they will be characterized with enlarged testes; while in children with PPP they will present disproportionately prepubertal tests. Objective: Clinically characterize the patients with Precocious Puberty seen in the Pediatric-Endocrinology outpatient clinic at the Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil IESS los Ceibos between the period from January 2019 to October 2022. Methodology: An Observational, descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study focused on the clinical characterization of Precocious Puberty in the HGNGC, under the specified period. Results: After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 223 patients were obtained as a population, of which there was a prevalence of precocious puberty during the aforementioned periods with 3.62%. The demographic distribution according to the sex was obtained a greater predominance in the female sex compared to the male. Conclusion: Finally, for the diagnosis of the pathology, it is classified into three etiologies: PPC, PPP and idiopathic; where a higher frequency of PPC was obtained in this study population, showing that the results obtained in the respective study don´t differ from those presented in the bibliographies.