Description
Odds are, you see women who are trying to conceive or are already pregnant. Odds also are that their likelihood of developing postpartum thyroiditis might be higher than most, but do you always know how to spot this? And from there, how to optimally assess them moving forward to know how their static risks they started with, are responding under the influence of pregnancy and postpartum physiology. If we can be clear about this and their shifting PPT propensity, then what we have is an opportunity for effective risk mitigation. In this PPT case we take a look in the rear view at what her risks were, where we could have redressed these and now ask the question, how to treat the PPT and avert permanent hypothyroidism. This case discussion comes together with an extraordinarily helpful clinical tool summarising assessment timepoints and interpretation along with appropriate treatment with each new level of risk identified.
