IMPE Abstracts

Introduction: Maternal Graves' disease (GD) is the most common cause of neonatal hyperthyroidism. Which by definition is transient and self-limited. There is also an infrequent cause of non-autoimmune persistent neonatal hyperthyroidism due to activating mutations in the TRH receptor (TSHR), both familial (FNAH) and sporadic (PSNAH), or to Protein G Mutation (Macune Albright Syndrome (GNAS). Neonatal screening for thyroid disease focuses on prevention of ...