Thyroid diseases and female reproduction

Minerva Medica

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-62

  Mintziori, G ^a   Anagnostis, P ^a   Toulis, K A ^a   Goulis, D G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fertility; Hyperthyroidism; Hypothyroidism; Reproductive techniques; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHYROID AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HEPARIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IODINE; LEVOTHYROXINE; PREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SAFETY; EMBRYOPATHY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVER TOXICITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVERT HYPOTHYROIDISM; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; POSTPARTUM THYROIDITIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGENY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT ABORTION; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SKIN APLASIA; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTOXICOSIS; WELLBEING;

FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCTION; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 84860248523     PISSN: 00264806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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