The last four years of my life have been miserable because of mistakes I made when choosing my parathyroid surgeon. I have...

The last four years of my life have been miserable because of mistakes I made when choosing my parathyroid surgeon. I have written this blog and asked the Blog Editor David Moon to post it for me, changing my name to "Susan".  I successfully sued my first surgeon-not just for his treatment of me in the operating room, but for his marketing ploys that greatly over-state his expertise and the siz...

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Measuring parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the operating room has some theoretical benefits, but in real life, the intra-opera...

Measuring parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the operating room has some theoretical benefits, but in real life, the intra-operative PTH assay (io-PTH testing) doesn't really help and may hurt. Measuring parathyroid hormone in the operating room cannot determine if a patient is cured of hyperparathyroidism. Intra-operative PTH Assay: The theory of measuring PTH in the operating room (io-PTH). Since...

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Thyroid and parathyroid surgeons have been told that monitoring vocal cord laryngeal nerves during surgery may decrease th...

Thyroid and parathyroid surgeons have been told that monitoring vocal cord laryngeal nerves during surgery may decrease the incidence of vocal cord nerve injury, but the data shows vocal cord nerve monitoring dramatically increases nerve damage. Surgeons don’t like hurting their patients. We will do anything, it seems, to prevent injuring our patients while they lie on an operating table allow...

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Parathyroid tumors located in the chest can almost always be removed via a small neck incision. Don't split your sternum o...

Parathyroid tumors located in the chest can almost always be removed via a small neck incision. Don't split your sternum open to remove a parathyroid adenoma in your chest! https://www.parathyroid.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PTH-Location.gif Parathyroid glands can be located from chin to bottom of heart. Parathyroid glands are located in the chest in about 2% of all people. This is ...

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Because 30% of people with hyperparathyroidism will have more than one parathyroid tumor, the most successful parathyroid ...

Because 30% of people with hyperparathyroidism will have more than one parathyroid tumor, the most successful parathyroid surgery only happens when surgeons examine all four parathyroid glands. This week we performed 52 parathyroid operations. Seven of these 52 had a previous parathyroid surgery somewhere else that was not successful so they came to see us.  In three cases, the surgeon could n...

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