CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 2023; 83(05): 504-516
DOI: 10.1055/a-1967-1653
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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
1   Klinik für Frauenheilkunde, Geburtshilfe und Reproduktionsmedizin, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg a. d. Saar, Germany
2   Klinik für Geburtshilfe und Pränatalmedizin, Kantonspital Baden, Baden, Switzerland
,
Dietmar Schlembach
3   Klinik für Geburtsmedizin, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
,
Ralf Lothar Schild
4   Klinik für Geburtshilfe und Perinatalmedizin, Diakovere Perinatalzentrum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
,
Tanja Groten
5   Klinik für Geburtsmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Jena, Germany
,
Joachim Wölfle
6   Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
,
Wilgard Battefeld
7   Heigl Health GmbH MVZ Kempten-Allgäu, Kempten, Germany
,
Sven Kehl
8   Frauenklinik, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
,
Michael O. Schneider
8   Frauenklinik, 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.



Publication History

Received: 09 May 2022

Accepted after revision: 23 October 2022

Article published online:
09 March 2023

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