Thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer in women with positive thyroid screening in pregnancy: a double-centric, retrospective, cohort study.

Objective: Thyroid nodules are a common finding in the general population. The primary aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of thyroid nodules and cancer found by ultrasound (US) in women who underwent screening for thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy.

Design: A double-centric, retrospective, cohort study.

Intellectual performance of children of mothers with an untreated thyroid disorder in the first trimester of pregnancy.

Introduction: The focus of the present study was the importance of the mother's thyroid function for foetal development in the first trimester, when the baby is totally dependent on the mother for thyroid hormones.

Material And Methods: The study consisted in testing the intellectual performance of children with both euthyroid and thyroid-dysfunction mothers. The experimental group comprised 60 children of mothers with an untreated thyroid disorder in the first trimester of their pregnancy (TSH≥3.

Universal screening detects two-times more thyroid disorders in early pregnancy than targeted high-risk case finding.

Objective: Screening of thyroid disorders in pregnancy has been controversial. Recent recommendations favour targeted high-risk case finding, though this approach may miss a significant number of those affected. We aimed to assess the prevalence of accepted high-risk criteria in women with autoimmune thyroiditis and/or hypothyroidism detected from universal screening in an iodine-sufficient population.