Pregnancy & Fertility
Newborn Screening
The panel of newborn disorders screened for varies and decisions for adding or deleting tests involve many complex social, ethical, and political issues. Usually, newborn population screening disorders are tied to issues such as disorder prevalence, detectability, treatment availability, outcome, and overall cost effectiveness.
Improvements in latest technologies allow detection of more than 50 metabolic disorders covering fatty acid oxidation, organic acids disorders, amino acid disorders and others. Exclusions which are not recognized by the screening are lysosomal storage disorders, mitochondrial disorders as well as organic acidurias.
Accurate specimen collection is a vital step in the drop filter card screening process. Please review the guidelines to ensure your sample is collected and submitted correctly.
