• J Chin Med Assoc · Mar 2022

    Parathyroidectomy for dialysis patients in the era of calcimimetics: The surgeons' point of view.

    • Chen-Hsen Lee, Jui-Yu Chen, Po-Chung Kuo, and Wei-Ting Chen.
    • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
    • J Chin Med Assoc. 2022 Mar 1; 85 (3): 279-285.

    AbstractCalcimimetics is a new drug for lowering serum parathyroid hormone (PTH), calcium and phosphate in patients with hyperparathyroidism (HPT) on long-term dialysis. It became available on market in 2006. The impact of calcimimetics on the treatment by parathyroidectomy (PTx) was reviewed from the surgeons' point of view. Cure of renal HPT by calcimimetics is not feasible, but calcimimetics can improve preoperative cardiac ventricle ejection fractions by lowering serum PTH. Heart failure is not necessarily a contraindication for PTx. PTx should be done before irreversible organ damage occurs. Limb gangrenes is an ominous sign and should be prevented by frequent checkup for peripheral arterial circulation. The impact of renal osteodystrophy on the quality of life and as indirect cause of mortality deserves more attention in patients with renal HPT. Delayed referral to PTx leads to more complicated patients. A consensus between nephrologists and surgeons about propitious timing for PTx is necessary. Future prospect on the surgical treatment of renal HPT is proposed. Supplemental figure; http://links.lww.com/ASAIO/A782.Copyright © 2022, the Chinese Medical Association.

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