Complications After Thyroid Surgeries: 10 Years' Experience

Thyroid Clinical Trial

Official title:

Complications After Thyroid Surgeries: 10 Years' Experience

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05699304
• Other study ID #: SVU-MED-SUR011-4-22-12-515
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 30, 2023
• Est. completion date: September 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: October 2023
• Source: South Valley University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Thyroidectomy is one of the commonest elective surgeries in surgical practice nowadays. It is associated with wide range of complications, from unnoticed events up to lifelong problems and even life-threatening complications. The most troublesome are bleeding, nerve injury and hypocalcemia. The current study was conducted to report the incidence and predictive factors for perioperative complications, aiming to point out preventive measures.

Description:

All files of all patients that had thyroidectomy in the hospital in the last 10 yeas will be reviewed. All demographic and peri-operative data will be collected, tabulated and analyzed.

Incidence and pre-operative predictive factors of every single complication will pointed out and discussed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 241
• Est. completion date: September 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients had thyroid disease and performed thyroidectomy in the last 10 years in our hospital.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Uncompleted files.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Thyroid
• Thyroid Diseases

Intervention

Procedure:
• Thyroidectomy
Thyroidectomy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Qena Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University Hospitals	Qina

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
South Valley University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

References & Publications (5)

Ernandes-Neto M, Tagliarini JV, Lopez BE, Padovani CR, Marques Mde A, Castilho EC, Mazeto GM. Factors influencing thyroidectomy complications. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2012 Jun;78(3):63-9. doi: 10.1590/S1808-86942012000300012. — View Citation

Khanzada TW, Samad A, Memon W, Kumar B. Post thyroidectomy complications: the Hyderabad experience. J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad. 2010 Jan-Mar;22(1):65-8. — View Citation

Ogbera AO, Kuku SF. Epidemiology of thyroid diseases in Africa. Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2011 Jul;15(Suppl 2):S82-8. doi: 10.4103/2230-8210.83331. — View Citation

Potenza AS, Araujo Filho VJF, Cernea CR. Injury of the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery. Gland Surg. 2017 Oct;6(5):552-562. doi: 10.21037/gs.2017.06.15. — View Citation

Zambudio AR, Rodriguez J, Riquelme J, Soria T, Canteras M, Parrilla P. Prospective study of postoperative complications after total thyroidectomy for multinodular goiters by surgeons with experience in endocrine surgery. Ann Surg. 2004 Jul;240(1):18-25. doi: 10.1097/01.sla.0000129357.58265.3c. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Recurrent Laryngeal nerve injury	Recurrent Laryngeal nerve injury	1 week
Primary	Bleeding	intraoperative or post operative bleeding.	2 days
Primary	Hypocalcemia	Clinically significant low serum calcium level/	6 months