Graves' disease surgery

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1],Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Seyedmahdi Pahlavani, M.D. [2]

Overview

Surgery

  • The patients' thyroid hormone must be normalized before surgery to minimize the risk of surgery.
  • Treatment with inorganic iodide commencing 1 week before surgery may decrease thyroid blood flow, vascularity, and blood loss but does not otherwise influence surgical risk.
  • Surgery is recommended for some patients including,
  1. Patients with large goiters
  2. Women wishing to become pregnant shortly after treatment
  3. Patients who want to avoid exposure to antithyroid drugs or radioiodine.
  • The course of ophtalmopathy is not affected by thyroidectomy.
Advantages Disadvantages
Thyroidectomy
  • Rapid euthyroidism
  • Extremely rare recurrence
  • No radiation hazard
  • Definitive histologic results
  • Rapid relief of pressure symptoms
  • Most expensive therapy
  • Surgery and anesthesiology associated risks
  • Major complications in 1-4% (hypoparathyroidism, recurrent laryngeal nerve damages)

Advantages of thyroidectomy include:

  • No radiation hazard
  • Definitive histologic results
  • Rapid relief of pressure symptoms


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