ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2019
Hypothyroidism as a Predictor of Surgical Outcomes in the Elderly.
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- The impact of thyroid function on surgical prognosis in patients undergoing cardiac and major vascular surgeries.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2025Article
- Influence of metabolic syndrome and lifestyle factors on thyroid nodules in Chinese adult men: a cross-sectional study.European thyroid journal · 2023Article
- The Etiology of Abnormal TSH in Veterans Cared by a VA Medical Center - One High Serum Thyrotropin is Associated with Higher 5-Years Mortality.Endocrinology and disorders : open access · 2023Article
- Hypothyroidism and Spine Surgery: a Review of Current Findings.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2023Review
- Thyroid function and age-related decline in kidney function in older Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Presence of preoperative Modic changes and severity of endplate damage score are independent risk factors for developing postoperative surgical site infection: a retrospective case-control study of 1124 patients.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021Article
- Diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism in old people : A new old challenge.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2020Review
- Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome Across the Ages.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2019Review
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Abstract
There is a high prevalence of hypothyroidism in the elderly population, mainly among women. The most important cause is autoimmune thyroiditis, but also iodine deficiency, radioiodine ablation, and surgery may be responsible for hypothyroidism in elderly hospitalized patients. Thyroid-related symptoms are sometimes comparable to physiological manifestations of the aging process, and hypothyroidism may be related with many symptoms which can be present in critical patients, such as cognitive impairment, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and hematological alterations, and eventually myxedema coma which is a severe and life-threatening condition in older adults. Adequate thyroid hormone levels are required to achieve optimal outcomes from any kind of surgical intervention. However, only few randomized clinical trials investigated the association between non-thyroidal illness (or low-T3 syndrome), and adverse surgical outcomes, so far. The goal of this review is to discuss the role of thyroid function as a predictor of surgical outcomes in the elderly.
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