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 a...

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...

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Hungry Bone Syndrome should really be called "Bad Doctor Syndrome" because it should almost never happen in patients with ...

Hungry Bone Syndrome should really be called "Bad Doctor Syndrome" because it should almost never happen in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. "Hungry Bone Syndrome" is almost always due to poor doctor management of calcium requirements after parathyroid surgery. Hungry Bone Syndrome is a term that refers to a patient who has such severe symptoms of low blood calcium (hypocalcemia) that...

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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 levels are almost never normal and increases the chances of developing a number of other health problems and even early death if ignored. For adults over 35 years of age,...

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High blood calcium during pregnancy can be very dangerous to the baby, resulting in miscarriage rates 5-10 times higher. H...

High blood calcium during pregnancy can be very dangerous to the baby, resulting in miscarriage rates 5-10 times higher. Hyperparathyroidism during pregnancy usually demands a parathyroid operation to help prevent loss of the pregnancy. "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 pregnan...

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