ypocalcaemia is one of the more acute complications of total thyroidectomy and occurs after parathyroid injury during surgery. The aim of this study is to assess the incidence rate and risk factors of transient and permanent hypocalcaemia in patients who had undergone total thyroidectomy, due to malignant thyroid diseases and to determine the value of parathyroid gland autotranplantation in thy...

BACKGROUND Hypocalcaemia is a well recognized complication of thyroid surgery. We have compared the prevalence of hypocalcaemia in our patients following ligation and non-ligation of the inferior thyroid artery (ITA) during thyroid surgery. METHODS A prospective observational study was done from January 2000 to December 2004, at Fauji Foundation Hospital, Rawalpindi. All patients undergoing s...

Abstract Introduction Hypocalcaemia is a frequent, and potentially dangerous, complication of total thyroidectomy [1, 2]. This quality improvement (QI) project was undertaken in large ENT department the East England over year. The improved postoperative guideline compliance by optimising recognition management patients at risk hypocalcaemia. process focussed on improving parathyroid hormone (PT...

Postoperative hypocalcaemia is the most frequent and common complication after total thyroidectomy. It is necessary to diagnose or to predict hypocalcaemia immediately after total thyroidectomy for minimizing complications. A prospective observational study was carried out in the Department of Clinical Pathology in collaboration with Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Department of Surger...

A patient with an untreated carcinoma of the prostate was admitted with dehydration, stupor and a surprisingly deep hypocalcaemia. The severe hypocalcaemia was largely attributed to extensive osteoblastic activity due to widespread skeletal metastases although contributing factors to the severity of the hypocalcaemia were a relative vitamin D deficiency, hypomagnesaemia and renal impairment, pr...

In our hospital early neonatal hypocalcaemia is now the major cause of low serum calcium in the neonatal period. Over a 2-year period, only 2 cases of hypocalcaemic convulsions were seen in a total of 8700 deliveries, though 51 infants had early neonatal hypocalcaemia. All sick low birth-weight infants should have daily serum calcium estimations carried out. Calcium supplements should be consid...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk of postthyroidectomy hypocalcaemia by measuring parathyroid hormone (PTH) level after thyroidectomy. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Baqiyatallah Hospital, Tehran, Iran, from March 2008 to July 2010. METHODOLOGY All included patients were referred for total or near bilateral thyroidectomy. Serum Calcium (Ca) and PTH levels we...

OBJECTIVE To determine the validity of early (one hour postoperatively) parathyroid hormone (PTH) assay (² 10 pg/ml), keeping gold standard as the serum ionic calcium level, for predicting sub-total thyroidectomy-related hypocalcaemia and to calculate the sensitivity and specificity of latent signs of tetany. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional validation study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Departm...