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Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Outcome of Children Treated with Tri-Iodothyronine after Cardiac Surgery: Follow-Up of a Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study.
BACKGROUND: Transient thyroid dysfunction occurs in children after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We demonstrated significant benefits of acute postoperative tri-iodothyronine (T3) treatment for recovery and myocardial function. Now we report the long-term neurodevelopment of these children.
METHODS: Twenty-eight children (70% of the original study population) could be recruited for a follow-up examination (median age 10.7 years, range 10-19.6 years) retaining the double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled protocol. Cognitive function and motor development were tested, as were growth and thyroid and cardiac functions.
RESULTS: The median full-scale intelligence quotient of all children was within the reference range and similar in the placebo and T3 groups. Tests for motor and cognitive functions, growth, and thyroid and cardiac functions revealed concurrent results.
CONCLUSIONS: Overall intellectual development is preserved in adolescents treated with CPB in infancy irrespectively of low postoperative thyroid hormone concentrations. While acute postoperative T3 treatment in children after CPB improves recovery, no significant long-term effects on neurodevelopment could be detected. We therefore speculate that transient postoperative thyroid dysfunction by means of nonthyroidal illness syndrome is predominantly mediated by extranuclear, nongenomic mechanisms and thus acutely affects the cardiovascular system but not the development of the central nervous system mediated by genomic mechanisms.
METHODS: Twenty-eight children (70% of the original study population) could be recruited for a follow-up examination (median age 10.7 years, range 10-19.6 years) retaining the double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled protocol. Cognitive function and motor development were tested, as were growth and thyroid and cardiac functions.
RESULTS: The median full-scale intelligence quotient of all children was within the reference range and similar in the placebo and T3 groups. Tests for motor and cognitive functions, growth, and thyroid and cardiac functions revealed concurrent results.
CONCLUSIONS: Overall intellectual development is preserved in adolescents treated with CPB in infancy irrespectively of low postoperative thyroid hormone concentrations. While acute postoperative T3 treatment in children after CPB improves recovery, no significant long-term effects on neurodevelopment could be detected. We therefore speculate that transient postoperative thyroid dysfunction by means of nonthyroidal illness syndrome is predominantly mediated by extranuclear, nongenomic mechanisms and thus acutely affects the cardiovascular system but not the development of the central nervous system mediated by genomic mechanisms.
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