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The role of routine thyroid assay in the management of gallstones

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Author Details : Sadaf Idris, Manjula K S*

Volume : 7, Issue : 4, Year : 2020

Article Page : 461-465

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijcbr.2020.097

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Abstract

Background: Cholelithiasis is a type of biliary stone disease, with a high prevalence. Along with classic risk factors like obesity, weight loss, female sex hormones, age, an association with thyroid dysfunction has been established.
Objectives: To evaluate the importance of thyroid profile as a diagnostic/therapeutic workup of gallstones.
Materials and Methods: The study included 200 subjects, above 18 years. 100 subjects (50 males+50 females) had cholelithiasis confirmed by ultrasonography and remaining as 100 subjects(50males+50females) control group without gallstones. After a detailed history and clinical examination, blood samples were analyzed for TSH, T3 and T4, using Chemiluminescence-Immunoassay.
Subjects with history of thyroid dysfunction or on thyroid replacement therapy, diabetes mellitus, pregnancy, drugs affecting thyroid hormone levels were excluded.
Statistical analysis: Computing descriptive statistics was used. Any significant difference were tested using the unpaired sample student t-test.
Result: The case group had a mean age of 45.7013.76 and the controls, a mean age of 38.78 15.63. There was a significant increase in the prevalence of gallstones after the age of 40years, especially in females. 20% of cases were hypothyroid and 12% were hyperthyroid when compared to the controls which were 10% hypothyroid and 6% hyperthyroid. The higher prevalence of hypothyroid among cases was statistically significant. Among the hypothyroid cases, 80% had subclinical hypothyroidism.
Conclusion: Our study concludes by saying that thyroid assay could be made a part of the diagnostic work up of gallstone management thus providing early detection for thyroid dysfunction and thus reducing the surgical/anesthetic complications.

Keywords: Case-control, Hypothyroidism, Gallstones, Prevalence, Routine, Workup.

How to cite : Idris S , Manjula K S, The role of routine thyroid assay in the management of gallstones. Int J Clin Biochem Res 2020;7(4):461-465

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