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8965764

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7-8
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-10
pubmed:abstractText
Early treated congenital hypothyroidism (CH) allows a normal neuropsychological development in many cases, but sometimes light neuromotor, linguistic, behavioural disturbances are described. In this work we compare two 9 year old twins to study the direct influence of CH in the neuropsychological development, eliminating variables linked to environment and the genetic aspects; one of the twins is affected by early treated congenital hypothyroidism, the other doesn't show any somatic, motor, linguistic, cognitive or behaviour affection. Our intention is to value the influence of CH in the neuropsychological development eliminating the variables linked to environment and to the genetic aspects. From this study emerges that both the somatic and neuropsychological development of the two twins are globally identical still, slight differences could possibly be pointed out during the evaluations, in the their neuropsychological performances. The psychomotor development of the hypothyroid twin resulted to be normal, but slower than the normal twin in any time. In the light of these results we can hypothesize that the differences in the global development are linked to the presence of congenital hypothyroidism although early treated in one of them, because the other variables linked to the genetic, environmental and socio-cultural factors are of no relevance whatsoever in this case. The two sisters are actually genetically and phenotypically identical, and both subject to the same familiar dynamics and receive the same education.
pubmed:language
ita
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0026-4946
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
48
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
325-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Congenital hypothyroidism. Comparison of neuropsychological development of monozygotic twins].
pubmed:affiliation
IRCCS-INPE, Università degli Studi, Pisa.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports