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Analysis and comparison of changing in thyroid hormones after percutaneous and surgical tracheotomy
Erkan Esen1, Murat Karaman, Ildem Deveci
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Haydarpaşa Numune State Hospital for Research and Training, Istanbul, Turkey. erk.e@hotmail.com
Objectives:
To evaluate the effect of the surgical and percutaneous tracheotomy on the thyroid hormones and their comparisons.
Materials And Methods:
Between January and May 2010, the surgical and percutaneous tracheotomy had been performed on 40 patients with respiration problems. The thyroid hormone levels were measured just before, after one and three hour of the operation and than these measurements were compared statistically.
Results:
The effect of the surgical and percutaneous tracheotomy on serum thyroglobulin (TG), free thyroxine (fT4), free triiodothyronine (fT3) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels was found statistically significant.
Conclusions:
The surgeons should not forget the possible increase of the serum thyroid hormone levels after the surgical and percutaneous tracheotomy because of the systemic effects of thyroid hormones. The patients, especially who have cardiac rhythm problems, should be monitored for a while after these processes because the increase of serum thyroid hormones may cause undesired cardiovascular effects.
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