Reliability of Neonatal Screening Results

Results of Screening for Neonatal Metabolic Diseases in Mashhad City, Iran (2015)

Background: Neonatal screening is a preventive medical measure to screen infants shortly after birth for treatable metabolic disorders and endocrinopathies. The present study aimed to evaluate and compare the accuracy of laboratory samples in the screening programs for metabolic diseases in Mashhad city, Iran with international guidelines.Methods: This observational study was conducted on all t...

Results of a neonatal hearing screening program in Maceió Summary

Results of a neonatal hearing screening program in Maceió.

UNLABELLED Since 1998, after we started the support group for neonatal hearing screening, many other hearing screening programs were held in Brazil. In Alagoas, the first program started in 2003, but none of its results were published. Hearing is paramount for human communication; therefore, childhood hearing loss can impair speech acquisition, emotional, educational and social development. A...

Neonatal screening for haemoglobinopathy. Results in 7691 Manchester newborns.

Over a period of one year the blood samples collected for phenylketonuria testing from 7691 Manchester newborns were screened by haemoglobin electrophoresis. An abnormality was detected in 47 (0-61%) of the babies. No cases of homozygous haemoglobinopathy were found. The overall incidence of sickle-cell trait was 0-38%, but for the Black population it was 10%. Four Black babies and one White ba...

Neonatal screening.

Introduction Though based firmly on the "old fashioned" disease of phenylketonuria, whole population blood based neonatal screening is a technique with many potential uses. Most never enter general service despite their technical feasibility, reflecting mainly the perceived balance between costs and benefits. For historical reasons there is an underlying assumption that neonatal screening shoul...