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Clinical course of infants with congenital heart disease who developed thyroid dysfunction within 100 days.

Hye Jin LeeHyeoh Won YuGi Beom KimChoong Ho ShinSei Won YangYoung Ah Lee
Published in: Annals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism (2017)
We observed thyroid dysfunction in two-thirds of CHD infants (53.7% transient, 13.0% permanent) who had risk factors and received TFT screening within 100 days, despite normal NSTs. Further studies with larger sample sizes are required to revise the criteria for TFT screening in CHD infants.
Keyphrases
  • risk factors
  • oxidative stress
  • case control