- Part 1 Principles of international endocrine practice
- Part 2 Pituitary and hypothalamic diseases
- Part 3 The thyroid
- 3.1 Evaluation of the thyroid patient
- 3.2 Aetiology of thyroid disorders
- 3.3 Thyrotoxicosis and related disorders
- 3.4 Hypothyroidism and pregnancy- and growth-related thyroid disorders
- 3.4.1 Clinical assessment and systemic manifestations of hypothyroidism
- 3.4.2 Causes and laboratory investigation of hypothyroidism
- 3.4.3 Myxoedema coma
- 3.4.4 Subclinical hypothyroidism
- 3.4.5 Thyroid disease during pregnancy
- 3.4.6 Thyroid disease after pregnancy: postpartum thyroiditis
- 3.4.7 Thyroid disease in newborns, infants, and children
- 3.4.8 Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome
- 3.4.9 Treatment of hypothyroidism
- 3.5 Thyroid lumps
- Part 4 Parathyroid, calcium, and bone metabolism
- Part 5 The adrenal gland and endocrine hypertension
- Part 6 Neuroendocrine tumours and genetic disorders
- Part 7 Growth and development during childhood
- Part 8 Female endocrinology and pregnancy
- Part 9 Male hypogonadism and infertility
- Part 10 Endocrinology of ageing and systemic disease
- Part 11 Endocrinology of cancer
- Part 12 Obesity, lipids, and metabolic disorders
- Part 13 Diabetes mellitus
Thyroid disease after pregnancy: postpartum thyroiditis
- Chapter:
- Thyroid disease after pregnancy: postpartum thyroiditis
- Author(s):
Nobuyuki Amino
and Sumihisa Kubota
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199235292.003.3264
Postpartum thyroiditis is defined as an exacerbation of autoimmune thyroiditis during the postpartum period (1). Patients do not develop thyroid autoimmunity at the onset of postpartum thyroiditis, but have ‘subclinical autoimmune thyroiditis’ beforehand which is exacerbated after delivery. Typically an exacerbation induces destructive thyrotoxicosis followed by transient hypothyroidism. However, various types of thyroid dysfunction may occur, including Graves’ disease. Therefore, any kind of thyroid dysfunction observed during the postpartum period, is referred to as ‘postpartum thyroid dysfunction’.
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- Part 1 Principles of international endocrine practice
- Part 2 Pituitary and hypothalamic diseases
- Part 3 The thyroid
- 3.1 Evaluation of the thyroid patient
- 3.2 Aetiology of thyroid disorders
- 3.3 Thyrotoxicosis and related disorders
- 3.4 Hypothyroidism and pregnancy- and growth-related thyroid disorders
- 3.4.1 Clinical assessment and systemic manifestations of hypothyroidism
- 3.4.2 Causes and laboratory investigation of hypothyroidism
- 3.4.3 Myxoedema coma
- 3.4.4 Subclinical hypothyroidism
- 3.4.5 Thyroid disease during pregnancy
- 3.4.6 Thyroid disease after pregnancy: postpartum thyroiditis
- 3.4.7 Thyroid disease in newborns, infants, and children
- 3.4.8 Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome
- 3.4.9 Treatment of hypothyroidism
- 3.5 Thyroid lumps
- Part 4 Parathyroid, calcium, and bone metabolism
- Part 5 The adrenal gland and endocrine hypertension
- Part 6 Neuroendocrine tumours and genetic disorders
- Part 7 Growth and development during childhood
- Part 8 Female endocrinology and pregnancy
- Part 9 Male hypogonadism and infertility
- Part 10 Endocrinology of ageing and systemic disease
- Part 11 Endocrinology of cancer
- Part 12 Obesity, lipids, and metabolic disorders
- Part 13 Diabetes mellitus