Endocrine Abstracts

Hypothyroidism is readily dealt with in pregnancy by ensuring optimal thyroxine replacement as early as possible - recent research suggests increasing the thyroxine by two extra days' dosage a week from the time pregnancy is confirmed is worthwhile (Alexander et al 2004).Hyperthyroidism in pregnancy is usually caused by molar pregnancy, gestational thyrotoxicosis (GT) or Graves' disease. GT affects 1-3% of pregnancies and is 3 times more common in Asian ...

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Thyroid hormone (TH) is essential for the developing nervous system. Early in pregnancy, the maternal thyroid is the fetal brain's sole source of hormone while later, the developing fetal thyroid assumes an increasingly greater role to be fully independent by term. Because brain structures vary as to timing of need for TH, different types of brain impairment and, correspondingly, different neurobehavioral deficits reflect the exact period of TH was insufficient. Several human ...

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