Recommendations of the AGG (Working Group for Obstetrics, Department of Maternal Diseases) on How to Treat Thyroid Function Disorders in Pregnancy.

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. 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. 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.