Endocrine Abstracts

Due to early demission of women soon after parturition neonatal (nn) TSH-screening of the new born becomes a problem. Therefore we investigated, whether measurements of TSH (Units per liter), free thyroxine (fT4 picogram per millilitre) and antibodies against thyroxine-peroxidase (a-TPO, Units per millilitre) in cord blood of spontaneously delivered babies at term, might be an alternative. Routine (nn) TSH-screening was recommended to be carried out on day 5 of life. Their mot...