High cholesterol doubles your rate of heart disease and stroke, but did you know that high blood calcium is far more dange...

High cholesterol doubles your rate of heart disease and stroke, but did you know that high blood calcium is far more dangerous than high cholesterol? Hyperparathyroidism caries many significant health risks. High Blood Calcium Risks High blood calcium levels are almost never normal and increases the chances of developing a number of other health problems and even early death if ignored. For...

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"My OB doctor is freaked out!". Today we operated on a 30 year old female with a parathyroid tumor and high blood calcium...

"My OB doctor is freaked out!". Today we operated on a 30 year old female with a parathyroid tumor and high blood calcium of 11.7 mg/dl. She is 20 weeks pregnant and the high calcium is a real and direct threat to the baby. She was sent to us by her OB in Los Angeles, California. Today's operation took 18 minutes. We evaluated all four parathyroid glands showing three normal parathyroid glands...

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Parathyroid surgery can be tricky which is why all your doctors will tell you "get the most experienced parathyroid surgeo...

Parathyroid surgery can be tricky which is why all your doctors will tell you "get the most experienced parathyroid surgeon you can" or you can have a failed parathyroid surgery or a bad complication. The fact that we have a business that is exclusively parathyroid surgery is evidence that this is not always a simple operation. If parathyroid surgery were simple, and if every town had an exper...

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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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A broken parathyroid tumor can be a devastating complication of parathyroid surgery. Parathyroid tumor cells will grow alm...

A broken parathyroid tumor can be a devastating complication of parathyroid surgery. Parathyroid tumor cells will grow almost anywhere, so they must not be broken during surgery! Parathyroid tumor implants are very hard to cure.  Today's story illustrates one of the most important rules of parathyroid surgery - "do not break the parathyroid adenoma; it must be removed from the patient's neck c...

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