Prevalencia de enfermedades detectadas mediante el tamizaje metabólico neonatal realizado en el Centro de Salud Materno Infantil Martha de Roldós en la ciudad de Guayaquil durante los meses de enero a diciembre del año 2018.

Abstract

Introduction: The Neonatal Metabolic Screening is a strategy, that leads the “Ministerio de Salud Pública” of Ecuador, the also called heel test is beneficial, because it allows us to detect in time several congenital defects of the metabolism, the analysis and the results of these tests are quickly and we have the results on time so we can prevent disabilities and early death in newborns. Objective: To determine the prevalence of diseases detected through neonatal metabolic screening performed at the “Centro de Salud Materno infantil Martha de Roldós” in the city of Guayaquil during the months of January to December of the year 2018. Methodology: A Prevalence or cross- sectional study (observational, descriptive) of newborn patients at the “Centro de Salud Materno-Infantil Martha de Roldós” where the prevalence of metabolic diseases was determined, through the neonatal metabolic screening test. Results: At the “Centro de Salud Materno-Infantil Martha de Roldós” we were able to determine that the prevalence of metabolic diseases detected by neonatal screening was 1.24% of positive cases. The 98.76% of patients did not present altered values. Conclusion: The prevalence of metabolic defects at birth was 1.24% that detected the only case of congenital hypothyroidism, the identification of this case allowed to start treatment on time.