Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thyroid surgery usually performed in 20% when traditional drug therapy was not effective, or development severe complications, or high risk/presence of cancer. New infection COVID19 affected whole body and probably thyroid results changes in clinical future and treatment. The aim of our study were investigate if frequency and type of thyroid surgery affected by COVID19 pandemics.

Material and methods: We analysed and compared data from one medical centre about thyroid surgery frequency and type before and after COVID19. Data of patients who were admitted for thyroid surgery in Vitamed Medical hospital in Tashkent from 2019 and 2022 were collected and analysed year by year.

Results: Patients chart of 525 people whose were admitted for thyroid surgery during 2019-2022 years were analysed. 86% woman and 14% men among them with average age 45.5±2.5 years old. Most part (60%) of all thyroid surgery were done for nodular goiters and 20% were done for thyroid cancer. Interestingly, before COVID19 pandemics nodular goiters were frequent causes and consisted 71% of all thyroid surgery. After COVID19 pandemics nodular goiters still frequent cases among all thyroid surgery but its pattern had decreased and consisted 57%. We found that surgery by thyroid cancer were increased after pandemics. If thyroid cancer were represented 14% of thyroid surgery cases before pandemics after pandemics the portion gradually increased to 20%. Moreover, gender distribution also were changed with increasing number of males after pandemics. It had shown mostly in thyroid cancer group, where male/female ratio was 1:13 in 2019 and become 1:3 after COVID19 pandemics.

Conclusions: Types of thyroid surgery were varied after COVID19 pandemics with gradually increasing number of thyroid cancer and also increasing number of male patients.