MON-LB047 GH Values in Serum and Blood Spots on Filter Paper Samples in Infants until 60 Days of Life by Electrochemiluminescence (ECLIA)

Congenital Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD) in newborn is an infrequent condition, which can cause threat to life due mainly to hypoglycemia that begins in the first week of life. Severe neonatal GHD needs a fast diagnosis and the substitution with recombinant human GH because of the risk the morbi-mortality. A GH basal level (whether random or associated with spontaneous hypoglycemia) that distinguishes infants with GHD from those with GH...