Gastrointestinal surgery, malabsorptive conditions, and postoperative hypocalcemia after neck surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postoperative hypocalcemia is a common complication of thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Patients with prior gastric bypass face increased risk of postoperative hypocalcemia, but the impact of other malabsorptive conditions is not well understood. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between multiple medical and surgical malabsorptive states and hypocalcemia after thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients who underwent total thyroidectomy and/or parathyroidectomy in Optum's deidentified Clinformatics Data Mart Database (2004-2022). Patients were categorized as having surgical (foregut/midgut: gastrectomy, intestinal bypass, enterectomy, enterostomy, pancreatectomy, or hindgut: colectomy/colostomy) or medi

SUBMITTER: Passman JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11649444 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature