Clinical management of infertility with thyroid tumor
In the course of diagnosis and treatment of infertility patients,thyroid tumors or thyroid dysfunc-tion are often found.In recent years,the incidence of thyroid tumors has been increasing,mainly in women under 45 years old.Because infertility patients are a special group,pregnancy and thyroid tumors affect each other,and may affect the outcome of pregnancy,so the diagnosis and treatment process should be very im-portent.We must determine the thyroid tumors benign or malignant firstly.Small benign tumors without any symptoms can be treated infertility to concive firstly,benign tumors with compression symptoms should be removed before pregnancy.If it is malignant thyroid tumor,at first,it is recommended to operative treat-ment,and then consider pregnancy after thyroid function is stable.In advantage and low ovarian reserve patients whole-embryo cryopreservation to preserve fertility may be considered before treatment of thyroid malignancies.