| Abstrakt: |
Hypocalcemia stands for a well-recognized problem of thyroid surgery. It is frequently transitory event that happens after widespread thyroid resection that may require calcium or vitamin D supplements to alleviate or prevent the symptoms. This study aims to determine the hypocalcemia incidence beyond to thyroid surgery and realize the involved risk reasons regarding the patient gender, age and muscular built, clinical analysis, extent of surgery, ligation of the inferior thyroid artery, and pathology report. This paper has been performed on 50 patients who experienced thyroid surgery for numerous thyroid illnesses at the surgical department of Tikrit Teaching Hospital between January 2016 to January 2017. The results of this occurrence of post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia are 30% and in most cases (24%) is transient. On the other hand, it is permanent in just (6%) of cases and has occurred mainly after total thyroidectomy and in cases with ligation of the inferior thyroid artery. We concluded that post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia is a comparatively mutual complication, but it is transient in most patients. Its incidence is linked with the surgery extent and can be reduced by the use of the correct surgical procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
