Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It is because of the heavy somatic and especially intellectual impact of congenital hypothyroidism that its systematic screening from birth has been proved to be essential. Numerous publications have already reported the considerable improvement in the prognosis of this condition but still few relate to adults. This preliminary work proposes to report the adult outcome in a cohort of 12 patients followed for congenital hypothyroidism.Patien...

Introduction: Congenital hypothyroidism is 30 times more frequent in newborns with Down syndrome (DS) than in the population of healthy children. Mild isolated TSH elevation with normal thyroxine (T4) levels is the most commonly seen pattern of thyroid dysfunction in these children.Patients and methods: A retrospective study was carried out on eleven patients with DS in the pediatric department of Mahdia who were followed for congenital hypothyroidism.</...