Recommendations of the AGG (Working Group for Obstetrics, Department of Maternal Diseases) on How to Treat Thyroid Function Disorders in Pregnancy

Amr Hamza; Dietmar Schlembach; Ralf Lothar Schild; Tanja Groten; Joachim Wölfle; Wilgard Battefeld; Sven Kehl; Michael O. Schneider

doi:10.1055/a-1967-1653

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 2023; 83(05): 504-516
DOI: 10.1055/a-1967-1653

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Statement/Stellungnahme

Recommendations of the AGG (Working Group for Obstetrics, Department of Maternal Diseases) on How to Treat Thyroid Function Disorders in Pregnancy

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Amr Hamza

¹Klinik für Frauenheilkunde, Geburtshilfe und Reproduktionsmedizin, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg a. d. Saar, Germany

²Klinik für Geburtshilfe und Pränatalmedizin, Kantonspital Baden, Baden, Switzerland

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Dietmar Schlembach

³Klinik für Geburtsmedizin, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

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Ralf Lothar Schild

⁴Klinik für Geburtshilfe und Perinatalmedizin, Diakovere Perinatalzentrum Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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Tanja Groten

⁵Klinik für Geburtsmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Jena, Germany

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Joachim Wölfle

⁶Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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Wilgard Battefeld

⁷Heigl Health GmbH MVZ Kempten-Allgäu, Kempten, Germany

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Sven Kehl

⁸Frauenklinik, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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Michael O. Schneider

⁸Frauenklinik, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

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Abstract

Objective These recommendations from the AGG (Committee for Obstetrics, Department of Maternal Diseases) on how to treat thyroid function disorder during pregnancy aim to improve the diagnosis and management of thyroid anomalies during pregnancy.

Methods Based on the current literature, the task force members have developed the following recommendations and statements. These recommendations were adopted after a consensus by the members of the working group.

Recommendations The following manuscript gives an insight into physiological and pathophysiological thyroid changes during pregnancy, recommendations for clinical and subclinical hypo- and hyperthyroidism, as well as fetal and neonatal diagnostic and management strategies.

Key words

thyroid disease in pregnancy - hypothyroidism - hyperthyroidism

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