Clinical Kidney Journal, 2018, vol. 11, no. 2, 265–269 doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfx086 Advance Access Publication Date: 17 August 2017 Original Article ORIGINAL ARTICLE Clinical course after parathyroidectomy in adults with end-stage renal disease on maintenance dialysis Christopher Thiam Seong Lim1,2, Thevandra Kalaiselvam1,2, Normayah Kitan3 and Bak Leong Goh1,4 1Department of Nephrology, Serdang Hospital, Malaysia, 2Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, 3Department of Surgery, Putrajaya Hospital, Malaysia and 4Clinical Research Center, Serdang Hospital, Malaysia Correspondence and offprint requests to: Christopher Thiam Seong Lim; E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract Background: Parathyroidectomy (PTX) is done in cases of secondary hyperparathyroidism from chronic kidney disease to improve renal osteodystrophy. Despite this widespread practice, clinical outcomes regarding the benefits of this procedure are still lacking. Most studies in the literature have opted to report the laboratory outcome instead. Our study aimed to evaluate the postoperative clinical course for patients who had undergone total PTX without autoimplantation. Methods and results: All patients who underwent PTX between January 2010 and February 2014 in a tertiary referral center were included in this study and followed up for 12 months. Laboratory outcome parameters include various preoperative and postoperative serial measurements of laboratory parameters. Patients’ hospitalizations and mortality records post-PTX were also retrieved and recorded. In all, 90 patients were included in this study. The mean age was 48 6 18 years. The majority of the patients (54.4%) were male and 90% were on hemodialysis. The mean duration of dialysis was 8.0 6 5.0 years.