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result in hearing impairment (HI) [ 1 - 3 ]. Deaf-mutism and HI are common in areas of iodine deficiency [ 4 ] and were reported in patients with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) prior to the implementation of thyroid neonatal screening in the 1980s [ 5
Laboratorio 6, Departamento de Farmacobiología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados-Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Delegación Tlalpan, Ciudad de México, México
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stage causes congenital hypothyroidism that alters thyroid and metabolic programming. This idea is supported by the fetal origin of the metabolic diseases hypothesis ( 2 , 3 ). Thus, metabolic diseases have their origin during the early life stages when
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Established Facts Maternal TSH receptor-blocking antibodies (TBAbs) are a known cause of transient congenital hypothyroidism. Novel Insights Congenital hypothyroidism due to TBAbs can occur in case of a normal concentration
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Introduction Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is an inborn disorder of the endocrine system with potentially severe health consequences for the affected individual and was the second disorder to be included in the national newborn screening (NBS
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Introduction Primary congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is the most common endocrine disorder in newborns, with an incidence ranging from 1/1000 to 1/3000 worldwide ( 1 ). The incidence of CH has doubled over the last two decades largely due to
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Introduction Congenital hypothyroidism (CH), an inborn thyroid hormone (TH) deficiency, can be divided into primary (or thyroidal) CH and central (or secondary) CH. Primary CH is most prevalent and results from an un(der)developed thyroid
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Introduction Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is thyroid hormone deficiency at birth mostly caused by impaired development of the thyroid gland or hormone biosynthesis (primary or thyroidal CH, CH-T). A less frequent, but equally important cause
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Introduction The newborn screening programme for CH was introduced in the UK in 1981 [ 1 , 2 ] and has virtually abolished cases of untreated congenital hypothyroidism (CH). CH is a common (1 in 3,000-4,000 live births) condition [ 3 , 4 ] in
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primary congenital hypothyroidism (CH) ( 17 , 18 ). The potential effects of maternal thyroid disease on offspring have led to the clinical practice of recommending serum thyroid function tests (TFT), including free T4 (FT4) and TSH, in infants born to
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disease), and congenital hypothyroidism (CH) of variable severity, associated either with athyreosis, hypoplasia or an apparently normal gland in situ [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ], but not with ectopy as recently indicated also in the document of the CH