25th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Newborn Screening

Abstract

From 15-16 June 2018, the 25th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Newborn Screening (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neugeborenenscreening, DGNS) was held at the Van Swieten Hall of the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. For the first time, this annual meeting was held outside Germany and organized by Maximilian Zeyda, PhD and Vassiliki Konstantopoulou, MD (conference presidents), directors of the Austrian Newborn Screening located at the Dept. of Pediatrics at the Medical University of Vienna. A local scientific board formed by Maximilian Zeyda and Vassiliki Konstantopoulou selected presentations from abstracts that were submitted by scientists of 7 countries, highlighting one purpose of this meeting, which was to foster contact and exchange of newborn screening labs of central European countries. Abstracts of invited lectures, oral communications, and posters presented during the meeting are collected in this report.

Keywords: newborn screening; primary immunodeficiencies; psychology; recalls; severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCID); techniques; vitamin disorders.