Cord blood versus heel-stick sampling for measuring thyroid stimulating hormone for newborn screening of congenital hypothyroidism
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Detecting congenital hypothyroidism with newborn screening: the relevance of thyroid-stimulating hormone cutoff values.
OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of congenital hypothyroidism and the ability of various neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSHneo) cutoff values to detect this disease. METHODS This cohort study was based on the retrospective collection of information available from the Reference Service for Newborn Screening database for all live births from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2012, asse...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Saudi Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0256-4947,0975-4466
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2019.291