Newborn screening (NBS) and management of congenital hypothyroidism is addressed in a clinical report published online Dec. 19 in Pediatrics. A recent study by prof. Tone Bjørge, University of ...

Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) with delayed thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) elevation is a common form of thyroid dysfunction among premature infants. Routine newborn screening (NBS) may miss ...

Congenital hypothyroidism, when undiagnosed or if there is a lack of proper treatment management, results in an unnecessary health, economic and social burden. Formalized screening programmes to ...

BOSTON — Some infants require a levothyroxine dose reduction for iatrogenic hyperthyroxinemia when following guidelines for initiating therapy for congenital hypothyroidism. “The current ...

AN association between congenital nystagmus and hypothyroidism has not to our knowledge been suggested in the medical literature. Four patients have been seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital ...