Erschienen in:
01.04.2008 | SSIEM Symposium 2007
The consequences of extended newborn screening programmes: Do we know who needs treatment?
verfasst von:
B. Wilcken
Erschienen in:
Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
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Ausgabe 2/2008
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Summary
The development of an evidence base for newborn screening is especially difficult because of the rarity of disorders now detectable. One consequence of expanded newborn screening is that physicians are being called upon to manage asymptomatic babies with persistent biochemical disturbances that indicate likely enzyme deficiencies. Some of these may be very mild. There is not always agreement as to who should be treated. Particular problems are seen with disorders that were previously thought very rare but are now found frequently by newborn screening. Some of these disorders appear benign or nearly so, and in the present state of knowledge should clearly not be included in routine newborn screening panels.