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Early Discharge and Selective Calcium Supplementation after Thyroidectomy Based on Post-Operative Day 1 Parathormone and Calcium Level: A Prospective Study

AIM: This study aimed to evaluate a protocol using post thyroidectomy parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels on the day after surgery to facilitate early discharge of patients. METHODS: This prospective observational study was done in Christian Medical College, India over 1 year with 125 consecutive patie...

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Autores principales: Sekar, Suganya, Belavendra, Antonisamy, Jacob, Paul M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7540830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088754
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_172_20
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author Sekar, Suganya
Belavendra, Antonisamy
Jacob, Paul M.
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Jacob, Paul M.
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description AIM: This study aimed to evaluate a protocol using post thyroidectomy parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels on the day after surgery to facilitate early discharge of patients. METHODS: This prospective observational study was done in Christian Medical College, India over 1 year with 125 consecutive patients who had serum PTH and calcium values measured in the morning following thyroidectomy/first postoperative day (D1). Patients with no symptoms and signs of hypocalcemia and with serum calcium ≥8 mg/dL and PTH ≥6 pg/ml according to the protocol were discharged without supplements on D1. Patients were followed up and tested for a week after surgery in the outpatient clinic to assess hypocalcemia and readmission rates. RESULTS: Seventy five patients (60%) could be discharged early on D1without calcium supplementation; only one patient had mild hypocalcemia symptoms managed with oral calcium supplements during outpatient follow-up within 1 week and none who followed the protocol required readmission. Temporary biochemical hypocalcemia was encountered in 36 patients (28.8%) including symptomatic hypocalcemia in 13 patients (10.4%). Among the 36 patients with hypocalcemia, 26 patients (72.2%) had a PTH level <6 pg/ml. Three patients required intravenous calcium infusion to correct hypocalcemia. Sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value, and ROC of PTH 6 pg/ml in predicting hypocalcemia were 70.5%, 94.5% and 83.3%, 0.86, respectively. The low PTH could also guide early supplementation of calcium and all the severe hypocalcemia patients had PTH lower than the cut off of 6 pg/ml. CONCLUSION: A PTH and calcium-based protocol can be effectively used for early discharge of thyroidectomy patients the day after surgery without calcium supplementation. The compliance of the patient for early discharge was good.
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spelling pubmed-75408302020-10-20 Early Discharge and Selective Calcium Supplementation after Thyroidectomy Based on Post-Operative Day 1 Parathormone and Calcium Level: A Prospective Study Sekar, Suganya Belavendra, Antonisamy Jacob, Paul M. Indian J Endocrinol Metab Original Article AIM: This study aimed to evaluate a protocol using post thyroidectomy parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels on the day after surgery to facilitate early discharge of patients. METHODS: This prospective observational study was done in Christian Medical College, India over 1 year with 125 consecutive patients who had serum PTH and calcium values measured in the morning following thyroidectomy/first postoperative day (D1). Patients with no symptoms and signs of hypocalcemia and with serum calcium ≥8 mg/dL and PTH ≥6 pg/ml according to the protocol were discharged without supplements on D1. Patients were followed up and tested for a week after surgery in the outpatient clinic to assess hypocalcemia and readmission rates. RESULTS: Seventy five patients (60%) could be discharged early on D1without calcium supplementation; only one patient had mild hypocalcemia symptoms managed with oral calcium supplements during outpatient follow-up within 1 week and none who followed the protocol required readmission. Temporary biochemical hypocalcemia was encountered in 36 patients (28.8%) including symptomatic hypocalcemia in 13 patients (10.4%). Among the 36 patients with hypocalcemia, 26 patients (72.2%) had a PTH level <6 pg/ml. Three patients required intravenous calcium infusion to correct hypocalcemia. Sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value, and ROC of PTH 6 pg/ml in predicting hypocalcemia were 70.5%, 94.5% and 83.3%, 0.86, respectively. The low PTH could also guide early supplementation of calcium and all the severe hypocalcemia patients had PTH lower than the cut off of 6 pg/ml. CONCLUSION: A PTH and calcium-based protocol can be effectively used for early discharge of thyroidectomy patients the day after surgery without calcium supplementation. The compliance of the patient for early discharge was good. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7540830/ /pubmed/33088754 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_172_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sekar, Suganya
Belavendra, Antonisamy
Jacob, Paul M.
Early Discharge and Selective Calcium Supplementation after Thyroidectomy Based on Post-Operative Day 1 Parathormone and Calcium Level: A Prospective Study
title Early Discharge and Selective Calcium Supplementation after Thyroidectomy Based on Post-Operative Day 1 Parathormone and Calcium Level: A Prospective Study
title_full Early Discharge and Selective Calcium Supplementation after Thyroidectomy Based on Post-Operative Day 1 Parathormone and Calcium Level: A Prospective Study
title_fullStr Early Discharge and Selective Calcium Supplementation after Thyroidectomy Based on Post-Operative Day 1 Parathormone and Calcium Level: A Prospective Study
title_full_unstemmed Early Discharge and Selective Calcium Supplementation after Thyroidectomy Based on Post-Operative Day 1 Parathormone and Calcium Level: A Prospective Study
title_short Early Discharge and Selective Calcium Supplementation after Thyroidectomy Based on Post-Operative Day 1 Parathormone and Calcium Level: A Prospective Study
title_sort early discharge and selective calcium supplementation after thyroidectomy based on post-operative day 1 parathormone and calcium level: a prospective study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7540830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088754
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_172_20
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