Thyroid dysfunction in infertile women

In: Clinical and experimental thyroidology · 2011 · vol. 7(4) , pp. 44 · doi:10.14341/ket20117444-50 · W2109373185
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Thyroid dysfunction was found in 48% of infertile women, significantly higher than fertile controls, with autoimmunity being the most common form and associated with various infertility types.

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The paper provides an overview of thyroid gland pathology in women with infertility, synthesizing information on thyroid dysfunction and thyroid autoimmunity and their potential links to reproductive outcomes. It discusses evidence from studies on hypothyroidism prevalence, autoimmune thyroiditis, and related immune mechanisms in the context of fertility and pregnancy, including how thyroid status may interact with infertility and treatment pathways. A stated limitation is that the article is a narrative clinical review, relying on heterogeneous prior studies rather than presenting original patient data. Relevance to endometriosis: the paper cites immunology-focused endometriosis work (including immune dysfunction as a candidate mechanism) among the broader reproductive immunology literature, though its main focus is thyroid dysfunction and autoimmunity in infertile women rather than endometriosis itself.

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Objective. To study the rate and structure of thyroid diseases in infertile women and to asses their reproductive system depending upon the thyroid pathology. Subjects and methods. The study was based on the results of screening of T status of 496 women with infertility (main group) and 80 fertile women (control group). Traditional methods of diagnosis of infertility were used along with special methods of investigation including assessment of function and structure of T (TTH, fT4, fT3, AT-TPO, AT-rTTH, ultrasound examination of T, thin-niddle aspirational biopsy, scintigraphy of T). A complex evaluation of the reproductive system status in infertile women was done depending on the type of T pathology. Results. Infertile women were found to suffer from thyroid dysfunction 3.8 times as more often as fertile ones (48% and 12.5%, p <0.05). Its structure included mainly AT-TPO carrier phenomenon in combination with ultrasound markers of thyroid autoimmunity (24%), hypothyroidism following thyroid autoimmunity (9.4%) demonstrating itself as clinical (0.8%), subclinical (8.6%), and euthyroid (7.8%) goiters. The portion of women with infertility and hyperthyroidism was small (0.6%). An association of thyroid autoimmunity with idiopathic infertility, endometriosis, endocrine infertility was found. Conclusion. It is necessary to perform a screening assessment of the function and structure of T in infertile women within diagnostic search for the reasons of infertility and in-time correction of the revealed thyroid dysfunction.
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Патология щитовидной железы у женщин с бесплодием https://doi.org/10.14341/ket20117444-50 Аннотация Об авторе S G Perminovaдоктор мед. наук, ведущий научный сотрудник 1#го гинекологического отделения Научного центра акушерства, гинекологии и перинатологии им. академика В.И. Кулакова Минздравсоцразвития России Список литературы 1. Бостанджян Л.Л. Влияние стимуляции суперовуляции на функциональное состояние тиреоидной системы у пациенток программы ЭКО и ПЭ: Дис. … канд. мед. наук. М., 2005. 2. Кампова-Полевая Е.Б., Чистякова С.С. Клиническая маммология. Современное состояние проблемы. М.: ГЭОТАР-Медиа, 2006. 3. Мельниченко Г.А. Заболевания щитовидной железы во время беременности: диагностика, лечение, профилактика: пособие для врачей / Г.А. Мельниченко, В.В. Фадеев, И.И. Дедов. М.: Мед. Эксперт. Пресс, 2003. 4. Фадеев В.В., Лесникова С.В. Аутоиммунные заболевания щитовидной железы и беременность. Пробл. эндокринол. 2003;49 (2): 23–31. 5. Фадеев В.В. Гипотиреоз: руководство для врачей / В.В. Фадеев, Г.А. Мельниченко. М.: РКИ Северопресс, 2002. 6. Фадеев В.В. Йододефицитные и аутоиммунные заболевания щитовидной железы в регионе лёгкого йодного дефицита (эпидемиология, диагностика, лечение): Дис.. д-ра мед. наук. М., 2004. 7. Яворовская К.А. Роль эндокринных нарушений в реализации и повышении эффективности программы ЭКО и ПЭ: Автореф. дис. … д-ра мед. наук. М., 1998. 8. Glinoer D. Thyroidal and immune adaptation to pregnancy [Text]: abstract / D. Glinoer. The thyroid and reproduction: European thyroid symposium (May 22-25, 2008). Riga, 2008. 13. 9. Janssen O.E. et al. High prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome. J. Endocrinol. 2004; 150: 363–369. 10. Arojoki M. et al. Hypothyroidism among infertile women in Finland. Gynecol. Endocrinol. 2000; 14: 127–131. 11. Wu M.Y. et al. Increase in the expression of killer cell inhibitory receptors on peritoneal natural killer cells in women with endometriosis. Fertil. Steril. 2000; 74: 1187–1191. 12. Krassas G.E. Thyroid disease and female reproduction. Fertil. Steril. 2000; 74 (6): 1063–1070. 13. Kaprara A., Krassas G.E. Thyroid autoimmunity and miscarriage. Hormones 2008; 7 (4): 294–303. 14. Lincoln S.R., Ke R.W., Kutteh W.H. Screening for hypothyroidism in infertile women. J. Reprod. Med. 1999; 44: 455–457. 15. Matarese G. et al. Pathogenesis of endometriosis: natural immunity dysfunction or autoimmune disease? Trends. Mol. Med. 2003;9 (5): 223–229. 16. Poppe K., Velkeniers B., Glinoer D. The role of thyroid autoimmunity in fertility and pregnancy. Nat. Clin. Pract. Endocrinol. Metab. 2008; 4: 394–405. 17. Prummel M.F., Wiersinga W.M. Thyroid autoimmunity and miscarriage. Eur. J. Endocrinol. 2004; 150: 751–755. 18. Redmond G.P. Thyroid dysfunction and women’s reproductive health. Thyroid. 2004;14 (Suppl. 1): 5–15. 19. G.W. Randal et al. Serum antiendomerial antibodies and diagnosis of endometriosis / Am. J. Reprod. Immunol. 2007; 58 (4): 374–382. 20. Matalon S.T. et al. The association between anti#thyroid antibodies and pregnancy loss. Am. J. Reprod. Immunol. 2001; 45 (2): 72–77. 21. Bellver J. et al. The role of thrombophilia and thyroid autoimmunity in unexplained infertility, implantation failure and recurrent spontaneous abortion. Hum. Reprod. 2008; 23 (2): 278–284. 22. Poppe K. et al. Тhyroid dysfunction and autoimmunity in infertile women. Thyroid 2002; 12: 997–1001. 23. Raber W. et al. Thyroxine treatment modified in infertile women according to thyroxine-releasing hormone testing: 5-year follow# up of 283 women referred after exclusion of absolute causes of infertility. Hum. Reprod. 2003; 18: 707–714. 24. Ulukus M., Arici A. Immunology of endometriosis. Minerva Ginekol. 2005; 57 (3): 237–248. Рецензия Для цитирования: Perminova S.G. Патология щитовидной железы у женщин с бесплодием. Клиническая и экспериментальная тиреоидология. 2011;7(4):44-50. https://doi.org/10.14341/ket20117444-50 For citation: Thyroid dysfunction in infertile women. Clinical and experimental thyroidology. 2011;7(4):44-50. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.14341/ket20117444-50 JATS XML Контент доступен под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

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