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Revista de la Sociedad Boliviana de Pediatría

versión On-line ISSN 1024-0675

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HAYES DORADO, Juan Pablo. Thyroidal function in newborn children of hyperthyroid mothers. Rev. bol. ped. [online]. 2008, vol.47, n.1, pp.13-15. ISSN 1024-0675.

Objective: to evaluate the thyroidal function in newborn children of hyperthyroid mothers, the morbidity of such and the maternal clinical conditions. Material and methods: the newborn children of hyperthyroid mothers, who were taken care of in the Service of Neonatology of the “Hospital Santa Cruz” of Caja Petrolera de Salud, were studied during the period from January 2002 to December 2006. Results: fourteen newborns were studied, children of hyperthyroid mothers. The diagnosed cause of the maternal hyperthyroidism in the 14 pregnant women was the Graves disease. In 13 newborns, seric hormonal levels of T4 and TSH at the 2-4 days of life, the 7-14 days and 4-6 weeks of life were normal, diagnosing in only one newborn, transitory primary hypothyroidism. Conclusion: in the present work, most of newborn children of hyperthyroid mothers did not present thyroidal dysfunction; only in one of them transitory primary hypothyroidism was diagnosed.

Palabras clave : newborn; children of hyperthyroid mothers; hyperthyroidism; Graves’s disease.

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