Laboratory Equipment

Expanded newborn screening panel for quantitative determination of 15 Amino acids, free Carnitines, 12 Acylcarnitines, Argininosuccinic acid (ASA) and Succinylacetone (SUAC) under the same extraction method and single injection/single run step without using any toxic compounds, on Tandem MS

Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is an endocrine disorder of newborns characterized by the decreased levels of thyroid hormones: thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) in periferal blood. In early perinatal period manifestations of CH are often non-specific, subtle or even non-existent [1-2]. However, the disease, if undiagnosed and untreated, leads to severe