title: The Italian screening program for primary congenital hypothyroidism: actions to improve screening, diagnosis, follow-up, and surveillance.
abstract: The Italian screening program for primary congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is an integrated system including neonatal screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and nationwide surveillance of the disease. The aim of the Italian screening program for CH is to identify not only babies with severe permanent CH (core target), but also babies with mild persistent and transient forms of CH who could have a benefit from an early replacement therapy (secondary target). In the last years, despite the important results obtained in terms of standardization of screening and follow-up procedures, it has become clear the need of optimizing the program in order to harmonize the screening strategy and the screening procedures among Regions, and to improve the diagnostic and therapeutic approach in all affected infants. On the basis of available guidelines, the experience of the Italian screening and clinical reference centers, and the knowledge derived from the nation-wide surveillance activity performed by the Italian National Registry of Infants with CH, the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology together with the Italian Society for the Study of Metabolic Diseases and Neonatal Screening and the Italian National Institute of Health promoted actions aimed at improving diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and surveillance of CH in our country. In this paper the most important actions to improve the Italian screening program for CH are described.
authors: Department of Pediatrics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Cassio
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Corbetta
authors: I
authors: I
authors: Antonozzi
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Calaciura
authors: U
authors: U
authors: Caruso
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Cesaretti
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Gastaldi
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Medda
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Mosca
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Pasquini
authors: M C
authors: MC
authors: Salerno
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Stoppioni
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Tonacchera
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Weber
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Olivieri
mesh_terms: D003409:Congenital Hypothyroidism / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D015997:Neonatal Screening / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012016:Reference Values; D013972:Thyrotropin / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D013972:Thyrotropin
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