How well does the capillary thyroid-stimulating hormone test for newborn thyroid screening predict the venous free thyroxine level?

OBJECTIVES: To determine, in newborn infants referred with elevated capillary thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), a threshold below which a frankly subnormal venous free thyroxine (fT4) level of <10 pmol/L is unlikely, so that treatment with levo-thyroxine (L-T4) might be deferred until venous thy...

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Autores principales: Pokrovska, Tzveta, Jones, Jeremy, Shaikh, M Guftar, Smith, Sarah, Donaldson, Malcolm D C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26966265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-309529

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26966265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-309529

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