Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Postoperative hypothyroidism after total thyroidectomy is associated with reduced risk for fractures.

Older people treated for Graves disease with total thyroidectomy in the United States are at low risk of developing hypoparathyroidism, according to results from a large population-based cohort study.

Dawn Ethier, a police officer in Ottawa, Canada, recalls how her life revolved around managing her 100-pill-a-day regimen. Her symptoms began 3 weeks after her thyroid surgery, but it took another 4 ...

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When I was just 18 years old, I was diagnosed with hypoparathyroidism, a rare disease that causes seizures, extreme fatigue and other life-altering complications. The only other people I knew with ...

The approval of Ascendis Pharma A/S’ hormone replacement therapy Yorvipath (palopegteriparatide) hypoparathyroidism – the first and only treatment for adults with the rare endocrine disease – did ...

Only about 10 cases of hypoparathyroidism related to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been reported, according to researchers who recently described such a case. Hypoparathyroidism associated ...

More than one-third of patients treated for differentiated thyroid cancer reported elevated anxiety and more than 15% reported a high level of depression at an annual follow-up, according to study ...

Diagnoses have tripled over the past 25 years, mainly as the result of increased detection of small papillary thyroid cancers. Is it time for a less-aggressive approach? A pair of physician ...

Total thyroidectomy can be recommended for the treatment of benign bilateral thyroid disease, suggest Barczynski et al. The optimal extent of surgery for the treatment of bilateral benign thyroid ...