Premature babies sometimes have low levels of thyroid hormones-will treatment with thyroid hormone be helpful for the baby?
Several studies have been done to address this issue. The available data does not support a detectable benefit for thyroid hormone therapy in this situation. See Prophylactic postnatal thyroid hormones for prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Jan 24;1:CD005948 and Postnatal thyroid hormones for respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Jan 24;1:CD005946 and Postnatal thyroid hormones for preterm infants with transient hypothyroxinaemia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Jan 24;1:CD005945.
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