Open AccessIntervalos de referencia para tirotropina sérica durante los primeros 14 días de vida
Author(s) -
María Lucy Yaniskowski
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
archivos argentinos de pediatría
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1668-3501
pISSN - 0325-0075
DOI - 10.5546/aap.2012.27
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , pediatrics , population , congenital hypothyroidism , thyroid , environmental health
Early detection of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) prevents impaired cognitive and motor development at problems. To increase the screening program specificity, we defined reference intervals for serum TSH in newborns between 2 and 14 days of life.