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<Articles JournalTitle="Case Reports in Clinical Practice">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Case Reports in Clinical Practice</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2538-2683</Issn>
      <Volume>11</Volume>
      <Issue>2</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2026</Year>
        <Month>08</Month>
        <Day>29</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Transient Symptomatic Hypocalcemia after Total Thyroidectomy: Two Case Reports</title>
    <FirstPage>91</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>95</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Elham</FirstName>
        <LastName>Nazar</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pathology, Sina Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Seyed Amir</FirstName>
        <LastName>Miratashi Yazdi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of General Surgery, Sina Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Elahe</FirstName>
        <LastName>Farmani</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pathology, Sina Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Aysan</FirstName>
        <LastName>Nozheh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pathology, Sina Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2026</Year>
        <Month>07</Month>
        <Day>07</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2026</Year>
        <Month>07</Month>
        <Day>19</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Transient hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy happens despite watchful preservation of the parathyroid glands and their blood supplies during surgery. Thyroidectomy for Graves&#x2019; disease is accompanied by a higher risk of transient hypocalcemia than for benign thyroid disease, including goiter, and the reasons are still unclear. We report two patients with Graves&#x2019; disease and goiter with symptomatic hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy.
We report a 64-year-old woman with multinodular goiter and a 41-year-old Iranian woman with a history of Graves&#x2019; disease who presented with transient symptomatic hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy with intact parathyroid glands on surgery. They had a longer hospitalization time than usual surgeries due to hypocalcemia. However, they had normocalcemia at 1-year follow-up after discharge. Severe hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy can have some related complications and may be life-threatening. Calcium supplementation before surgery is a simple choice of treatment for the reduced probability of symptomatic hypocalcemia after Graves&#x2019; disease or benign thyroid disease in high-risk patients.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/view/1215</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/download/1215/786</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
