ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Effect of Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Surgical Site Infection in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Risk factors for surgical site infection following thyroid surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Gland surgery · 2024Article
- Postoperative pancytopenia in a patient with giant parathyroid adenoma and brown tumor: a case report.BMC endocrine disorders · 2024Article
- Preventing Surgical Site Infections in the Era of Escalating Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic Stewardship.JAMA surgery · 2024Review
- Management of surgical diseases of Primary Hyperparathyroidism: indications of the United Italian Society of Endocrine Surgery (SIUEC).Updates in surgery · 2024Review
- Surgical site infections in thyroid and parathyroid surgery in Japan: An analysis of the Japan Nosocomial Infections Surveillance database from 2013 to 2020.International wound journal · 2023Article
- Risk factors for difficult thyroidectomy and postoperative morbidity do not match: retrospective study from an endocrine surgery academic referral centre.Updates in surgery · 2022Article
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- Prophylactic antibiotics may not be necessary for transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
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Abstract
Thyroid and parathyroid surgery are considered clean procedures, with an incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) after thyroidectomy ranging from 0.09% to 2.9%. International guidelines do not recommend routine antibiotic prophylaxis (AP), while AP seems to be employed commonly in clinical practice. The purpose of this systematic review is analyzing whether the postoperative SSI rate in thyroid and parathyroid surgery is altered by the practice of AP. We searched Pubmed, Scopus, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science (WOS) for studies comparing AP to no preoperative antibiotics up to October 2021. Data on the SSI rate was evaluated and summarized as relative risks (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Risk of bias of studies were assessed with standard methods. Nine studies (4 RCTs and 5 nRCTs), including 8710 participants, were eligible for quantitative analysis. A meta-analysis showed that the SSI rate was not significantly different between AP and no preoperative antibiotics (SSI rate: 0.6% in AP vs. 2.4% in control group; RR 0.69, 0.43-1.10 95% CI,
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