Thyroid disease in pregnancy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 927-943

  Negro, Roberto ^a   Mestman, Jorge Hector ^b  

^a VITO FAZZI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

autoimmunity; hyperthyroidism; hypothyroidism; pregnancy; thyroid

Indexed keywords

2 PROPYLTHIOURACIL; ANTITHYROID AGENT; ATENOLOL; CARBIMAZOLE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROPRANOLOL; THIAMAZOLE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE BINDING GLOBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBRYOPATHY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; EUTHYROIDISM; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEARING LOSS; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIVER TOXICITY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; RISK FACTOR; SKIN APLASIA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THERAPY EFFECT; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 81855224553     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2011.07.010     Document Type: Review

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