Screening and subsequent management for thyroid dysfunction pre-pregnancy and during pregnancy for improving maternal and infant health

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Spencer, Laura ^a   Bubner, Tanya ^a   Bain, Emily ^a   Middleton, Philippa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; LEVOTHYROXINE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; BLINDNESS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY; FETUS DEATH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN DEATH; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL CARE; META ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); THYROID DISEASES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT HEALTH; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; THYROID DISEASES;

EID: 84962811866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011263.pub2     Document Type: Review

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