ea0092op-06-02 | Oral Session 6: Pregnancy | ETA2023
Jansen Heleen
, van Haeringen Marije
, Bouva Marelle
, den Elzen Wendy
, Bruinstroop Eveline
, van der Ploeg Catharina
, van Trotsenburg Paul
, Zwaveling-Soonawala Nitash
, Heijboer Annemieke
, Bosch Annet
, de Jonge Robert
, Hoogendoorn Mark
, Boelen Anita
Objectives: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is an inborn thyroid hormone (TH) deficiency mostly caused by disturbances at the thyroid level (thyroidal CH, CH-T). Less frequently, but equally important, CH can be the result of hypothalamic/pituitary dysfunction (central CH, CH-C). Most CH newborn screening (NBS) programs are based on the measurement of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), thereby only detecting CH-T. The Dutch NBS detects CH by measuring total T4 concentrations in...