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Postoperative hypoparathyroidism in patients after total thyroidectomy - retrospective analysis.

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2017

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Magdalena Marcinkowska, Beata Śniecikowska, Arkadiusz Zygmunt, J Brzeziński, Marek Dedecjus, Andrzej Lewiñski
PubMed

Abstract

Serum PTH levels below 5 pg/ml seems to be a good prognostic factor of the occurrence of hypocalcaemia symptoms. The information about low PTH concentration allows to start the pharmacotherapy faster and avoid clinical manifestation of hypocalcaemia.