Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The role of thyroxine (T4) during embryo development is recognised as crucial. The research question of this study was if embryo quality and reproductive outcomes after IVF are affected by maternal thyroid function and/or thyroid auto-immunity (TAI).Methods/design: We conducted a prospective study (ThyrART), assessing embryo quality and reproductive outcome of women undergoing ovarian stimulation with a flexible GnRH-antagonist p...

Background: Fine-needle aspiration biopsy is the ‘gold standard’ in the preoperative management of thyroid nodules.Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate whether serum TSH is a predictor of thyroid malignancy in patients presenting with thyroid nodules.Subjects and methods: About 565 patients without overt thyroid dysfunction, who presented with palpable thyroid nodule(s) between 1988 and 2004 and underwent at leas...