Management of Graves' disease during pregnancy: The key role of fetal thyroid gland monitoring

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6093-6098

  Luton, Dominique ^a   Le Gac, Isabelle ^c   Vuillard, Edith ^a   Castanet, Mireille ^c   Guibourdenche, Jean ^a   Noel, Michèle ^a   Toubert, Marie Elisabeth ^b   Léger, Juliane ^a   Boissinot, Christine ^a   Schlageter, Marie Hélène ^b   Garel, Catherine ^a   Tébeka, Brigitte ^a   Oury, Jean François ^a   Czernichow, Paul ^a   Polak, Michel ^c  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; BENZYLTHIOURACIL; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BONE MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATION PERIOD; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID GLAND EXAMINATION; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROIDECTOMY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; FETUS; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 27744526660     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2004-2555     Document Type: Article

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