Proceedings of the Merck European Thyroid Symposium held in Italy, April 30-May 2, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pregnancy and the mother -- Thyroid hyperfunction during pregnancy -- Autoimmune thyroiditis: repercussions during and after pregnancy -- Spectrum of thyroid abnormalities in mothers of congenitally hypothyroid children -- Pregnancy and the fetus -- Transplacental transfer of thyroid hormones -- Thyroid hormone and fetal development -- Thyroxine supplementation in very preterm infants -- Neonatal hypothyroidism -- Recent insights in the pathogenesis of neonatal hypothyroidism -- Treatment and outcome of neonatal hypothyroidism -- Screening for congenital hypothyroidism used as an indicator of IDD control -- Hyperthyroidism in early infancy -- Pathogenesis, diagnostic strategy and clinical features -- Long-term consequences and treatment of hyperthyroidism in early infancy -- Thyroid in puberty -- Pubertal goiter in females -- Hypothyroidism and puberty -- Hyperthyroidism and puberty -- Thyroid diseases in adults -- Introduction: iodine and the thyroid -- Epidemiology of thyroid diseases in iodine sufficiency -- Epidemiology of thyroid diseases in iodine deficiency -- Iatrogenic thyroid diseases -- Environmental factors in Graves' ophthalmopathy -- Manifest thyroid diseases in the elderly -- Therapy of compressive goiter in the elderly -- Cardiac risks of hyperthyroidism in the elderly -- Specific problems in the management of thyroid cancer -- Subclinical thyroid diseases in the elderly -- Subclinical hypothyroidism -- Subclinical hyperthyroidism -- Abstracts -- Index.