title: Endocrine problems of adolescent pregnancy.
abstract: A number of changes in renal and endocrine physiology occur during pregnancy that alter hormone levels and affect a number of disease processes. Increased glomerular filtration causes an increase in hormone and substrate clearance. Increased placental steroid production causes an increase in hormone-binding globulin production, insulin resistance, and prolactinoma growth. Production of peptide hormones may cause changes in normal physiology and alter dynamic hormone testing. Placental vasopressinase increases vasopressin clearance. A number of diseases of hormone overproduction and underproduction affect pregnancy outcome and must be treated promptly by therapeutic modalities that also may affect the fetus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Molitch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004700:Endocrine System Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000502:physiology*