A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECTS ON SERUM CALCIUM AND SERUM TSH (thyroid hormone) IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING HEMITHYROIDECTOMY
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: E038- Other specified hypothyroidism
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/09/036735
- Lead Sponsor
- Institutional thesis research grant
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Solitary thyroid nodule
Unilateral goitre
Thyroid cyst
Follicular nodule
Nodules with indeterminate characteristics on fine needle aspiration cytology
Exclusion Criteria
Past history of thyroid or neck surgery
History of thyroid malignancy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, chemotherapy, Graveâ??s disease, thyroid Otis, radioactive iodine
Preoperative elevation in serum TSH (subclinical or clinical hypothyroidism)
Patients who do not consent for surgery
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To observe changes in serum calcium and serum TSH, preoperatively and postoperatively after 3 weeksTimepoint: 3 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Sub-analysis will be done taking into consideration factors such as patientâ??s age, sex etc to identify who is at a higher risk of developing subclinical or clinical postoperative hypothyroidism.Timepoint: 3 weeks