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This study reviewed all patients in the neonatal screening programme for congenital hypothyroidism in Northern Ireland between 1983 and 1993
Abstract:
All patients identified in the neonatal screening programme for congenital hypothyroidism in Northern Ireland between 1983 and 1993 were reviewed. 131 infants were recalled because of TSH elevation of whom 85 proved to have true permanent congenital hypothyroidism, while 44 had transient TSH elevation and 2 cases died before the diagnosis could be confirmed. TSH elevation at more...
International Classification:
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases - disorders of thyroid gland
Categories:
congenital hypothyroidism
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Ulster Med J,
Vol: 71 Page: 38-41 May 2002
A. Foo; H. Leslie; D. J. Carson
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This aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in children and adolescents with DS and the feasibility of screening for hypothyroidism using capillary dried blood spot thyroid stimulating hormone from infancy
Abstract:
Thyroid dysfunction is more common in individuals with Down's syndrome (DS) than in the general population, whose clinical features can mask the presenting signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism. Biochemical screening is necessary; however, venepuncture may be difficult. AIMS: To assess the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in children and adolescents with DS and the feasibility of more...
International Classification:
Endcrine, nutritional and metabolic disease - thyroid dysfunction
Categories:
hypothyroidism; dried blood spot; thyroid stimulating hormone
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab,
Vol: 21 Page: 155-63 February 2008
J. Murphy; M. Philip; S. Macken; J. Meehan; E. Roche; P. D. Mayne; M. O'Regan; H. M. Hoey
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