Abstract
We report on a female patient with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) missed on a newborn screening test. She is now 10 years old with retarded development. The patient was born premature at 34 weeks of gestation with birth-weight of 1515 g, and was judged to be normal in the screening programme of Niigata Prefecture. However, she gradually suffered from poor weight gain and retarded development with stridor at breathing. Serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels were rechecked and showed high values with normal T3 and T4 levels. She was referred to our hospital at the age of 13 months. She was diagnosed as having CH (ectopic thyroid) with a delayed rise in blood TSH concentration, probably due to the prematurity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis. L-thyroxine therapy brought a decline in TSH levels with partial improvement of her symptoms. Regardless of the result of newborn screening, infants with elevated serum TSH levels should be carefully examined for possible CH, even when T3, T4 and free T4 values are in the normal range.
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