Table 2. Thyroid diseases and clinical outcomes in assisted reproduction
Thyroid
disease
Author Number of patients Age/
TSH levels
BMI (kg/m2)/
TSH levels
Drug Control
group
Clinical
outcome
Thyroid autoimmunity Zhong et al., 2012 90 32.8y 20.5 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IVF + ICSI)
↓ Fertilization;
↓ Viable embryos;
↓ Pregnancy rate
Tan et al., 2014 835 31.4y 23.7 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(ICSI)
No statistical differences
Chai et al., 2014 122 35.2y 21.1 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IVF + ICSI)
No statistical differences
Unuane et al., 2016 333 33.4y 25.2 Levothyroxine Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IVF + ICSI)
No statistical differences
Unuane et al., 2017 187 33.83y 23.8 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IIU)
No statistical differences
Nacak et al., 2018 Group IOP: n=150
ovarian aging group in old age:n=150
group IOP: 30.5y
ovarian aging group in advanced age:36.8y
- - - (ICSI)
group IOP:↓ Pregnancy rate
Ke et al., 2020 1075 31 23.4 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IVF + ICSI)
↑ Congenital anomalies
Poppe et al., 2020 25 36.5 24.6 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IVF + ICSI)
↓ Number of revored oocytes
He et al., 2020 0.3 <TSH<2.5 mIU/L:54
2.5<TSH<4.2 mIU/L:54
0.3<TSH<2.5mIU/L:30.8y
2.5<TSH<4.2mIU/L:30.3y
0.3<TSH<2.5mIU/L:23.1
2.5<TSH<4.2mIU/L:23.4
- Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(ICSI)
↓ Embryo rate
Gungor & Gungor,2021 39 31.6 25 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IVF)
No statistical differences
Zhuang et al., 2021 42 32.37 24.91 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IVF + ICSI)
↑ Premature delivery
Huang et al., 2021a 778 20-38 22.6 - Euthyroid
(negative self-immunity)
(IVF + ICSI)
↓ Number of recovered oocytes
Hypothyroidism Scoccia et al., 2012 21 33.3 - Levothyroxine Euthyroid (FIV)
↓ Live births;
↓ Implementation;
↓ Clinical pregnancy
Busnelli et al., 2013 137 35 22.9 Levothyroxine* Euthyroid
(Without Levothyroxine)
(IVF + ICSI)
↑ Cancellation of cycles
Neto et al., 2016 TSH<2.5mUI/L:455
TSH:2.5-4.0mUI/L:162
TSH<2.5mUI/L:35y
TSH:2.5-4.0mUI/L:35y
TSH<2.5mUI/L:24.2
TSH:2.5-4.0mUI/L 24
- Subclinical hypothyroidism (IVF + ICSI)
No statistical differences
Cai et al., 2017 200 28.8 22.7 LT-4 Euthyroid (IVF + ICSI)
No statistical differences
Pekman et al., 2019 387 27 24.4 - Healthy control (IIU)
No statistical differences
Rao et al., 2021 229 36 24.5 - Euthyroid (IVF + ICSI)
No statistical differences
Thyroid cancer Huang et al., 2021b Total thyroidectomy:26.
Partial thyroidectomy:38
Total thyroidectomy:34.9y
Partial thyroidectomy:33y
Total thyroidectomy:23.3.
Partial thyroidectomy:23
- Healthy control (IVF + ICSI)
↓ Live births
Huang et al., 2021c 64 33.8 23.1 - Healthy control (IVF + ICSI)
↓ Number of recovered oocytes
↓ Fertilization
↓ Viable embryos