Thyroid disease in pregnancy: New insights in diagnosis and clinical management

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 610-622

  Korevaar, Tim I M ^a   Medici, Marco ^a   Visser, Theo J ^a   Peeters, Robin P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROID HORMONE;

AUTOIMMUNITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROXINEMIA; IODINE DEFICIENCY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); THYROID DISEASES; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID HORMONES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85030771616     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2017.93     Document Type: Review

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