Endocrine Abstracts

The UK newborn screening programme for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) facilitates prevention of neurodevelopmental delay in CH by enabling prompt diagnosis and treatment. Although the UK Newborn Screening Programme Centre (UKNSPC) defines a borderline bloodspot screening TSH (bsTSH) concentration as 10–20 mU/l, the lower cutoff used at Great Ormond Street Hospital (6 mU/l), enables diagnosis of true and transient CH in cases missed using UKNSPC criteria. We hypothesised t...

The UK newborn screening programme for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) facilitates prevention of neurodevelopmental delay in CH by enabling prompt diagnosis and treatment. Although the UK Newborn Screening Programme Centre (UKNSPC) defines a borderline bloodspot screening TSH (bsTSH) concentration as 10–20 mU/l, the lower cutoff used at Great Ormond Street Hospital (6 mU/l), enables diagnosis of true and transient CH in cases missed using UKNSPC criteria. We hypothesised t...

Background: Lower cut-offs in TSH screening have doubled the incidence of congenital hypothyroidism (CH), particularly cases with an eutopically-located Gland-in-situ (GIS). Although mutations in known dyshormonogenesis genes, or the thyrotropin-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR) may underlie such cases, these genes have not previously been screened comprehensively in a GIS CH cohort.Study design: We evaluated the relative contribution and mole...