Assessing Parathyroid Glands Vascularisation by ICG Fluoroscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Evaluate parathyroid gland perfusion during total thyroidectomy or thyroid totalisation surgery. Create an objective basis for the decision whether or not to transplant the parathyroid glands. Avoide postoperative serum calcium and parathyroid hormone dosages, and thus abstention of systematic supplementation with calcium and vitamin D in case of good perfusion.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Geneva
• Collaborator: Geneva University, School of medicine
• Treatments: Calcium, Dietary; Parathyroid Hormone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients undergoing total thyroidectomy or a totalisation thyroid procedure.

• Patients capable of understanding and able to understand the study.

• Values visually 2 and ICG 2

Exclusion Criteria:

• Parathyroid disease or prior parathyroidectomy

• Lack of informed consent

• Altered mental status of the patient.

• ICG values <2.