Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Recent evidence suggests that detection of fetal goitre (defined as fetal thyroid circumference >95th percentile) may be a useful way of detecting over and under activity of the fetal thyroid in maternal Graves’ disease. Clinical translation is made difficult by the large differences in normative data from different populations. We examined fetal thyroid circumference in our population against normative data based on at least 150 examinations. Normative da...

Background: Guidelines from ATA and the Endocrine society suggest the use of fetal thyroid monitoring in maternal Graves’ disease to detect fetal thyrotoxicosis or hypothyroidism in response to maternal thyroid receptor antibodies (TRAb) or thionamide therapy respectively. The literature examining how effective this policy is remains sparse, since these remain unusual clinical situations for most centres. Here we review our experience of scanning for fetal goitre.<p c...