Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence of post thyroidectomy hypocalcemia varies from 10–50%. Treatment is either prophylactic or therapeutic calcium and vitamin D supplementation. We evaluated the utility of thiazide diuretics in the management of hypocalcemia prospectively.Material and methods: This study was conducted in Endocrine Surgery department of a teritiary care teaching hospital. We included 104 patients of total thyroidectomy in the study. 44 cases...