Intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring to determine long‐term success of total parathyroidectomy for secondary hyperparathyroidism

Abstract

When used under current guidelines, ioPTH monitoring is of no use in predicting long-term cure for these patients because it does not predict success. Patients that undergo total parathyroidectomy are required to have long-term calcium and PTH assay follow-up because normoparathyroidism cannot be assumed. Using the regression equation calculated, success may be predicted for future patients.