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Published on: October 6, 2023
Congenital hypothyroidism with neurological and respiratory alterations: a case detected using a variable diagnostic
Jesús Barreiro1, Jóse Ramón Alonso-Fernández, Lidia Castro-Feijoo
1Hosp Clínico/Universidade de Santiago, Unidad de Endocrinologia Pediatrica, Crecimiento y Adolescencia Pediatría, Galicia, Spain.
Abstract:
We report a case of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) with neurological and respiratory alterations due to a heterozygotic c.374-1G > A mutation of TITF1/NKX2-1. The hypothyroidism was detected using a neonatal screening protocol in which the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) threshold is re-set each day on the basis of within-day variability and between-day variation. In this case, the threshold on the day of the initial analysis was 8.2 mIU/L, and the measured TSH level in heel-prick blood was 8.3 mIU/L.
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