Intraoperative prevention of postoperative hypoparathyroidism.

Objective: More than 30,000 thyroid surgeries are performed annually in the Russian Federation. The surgeries are relatively safe because of the prevention methods for postoperative complications. Currently, there is no single effective method of postoperative hypoparathyroidism prevention.

Varied Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Course Is Associated with Increased Risk of Nerve Dysfunction During Thyroidectomy: Results of the Surgical Anatomy of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve in Thyroid Surgery Study, an International Multicenter Prospective Anatomic and Electrophysiologic Study of 1000 Monitored Nerves at Risk from the International Neural Monitoring Study Group.

The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) can be injured during thyroid surgery, which can negatively affect a patient's quality of life. The impact of intraoperative anatomic variations of the RLN on nerve injury remains unclear. Objectives of this study were to (1) better understand the detailed surgical anatomic variability of the RLN with a worldwide perspective; (2) establish potential correlates between intraoperative RLN anatomy and electrophysiologic responses; and (3) use the information to minimize complications and assure accurate and safe intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM).

Russian thyroid surgery from the 19th to the early 20th century.

Introduction: The aim of our study was to investigate the contributions made to thyroid surgery by outstanding Russian surgeons;' (Pirogov N.I., Bujalskiy I.

Electrophysiologic recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring during thyroid and parathyroid surgery: international standards guideline statement.

Intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) during thyroid and parathyroid surgery has gained widespread acceptance as an adjunct to the gold standard of visual nerve identification. Despite the increasing use of IONM, review of the literature and clinical experience confirms there is little uniformity in application of and results from nerve monitoring across different centers. We provide a review of the literature and cumulative experience of the multidisciplinary International Neural Monitoring Study Group with IONM spanning nearly 15 years.