Therapeutic drug monitoring during pregnancy and lactation: Thyroid function assessment in pregnancy-challenges and solutions

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-268

  Soldin, Offie P ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gestation; Pharmacokinetics; Therapeutic drug monitoring; Thyroxine

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE; THYROXINE BINDING PROTEIN;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG MONITORING; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOASSAY; INHERITANCE; LACTATION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID HORMONE METABOLISM;

DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODINE; LACTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE-BINDING PROTEINS; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 77952942733     PISSN: 01634356     EISSN: 15363694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FTD.0b013e3181ddf729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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