Ligation of inferior thyroid artery to avoid hypocalcaemia after thyroidectomy

Objective: ligation of inferior thyroid artery to avoid hypocalcaemia after thyroidectomy. methods: we did an observational study from june 2011 to april 2012,at qilu hospital jinan affiliated to shandong university china and sheikh zaid hospital rahim yar khan,pakistan. all patients undergoing partial and total thyroidectomy,we placed them in to two groups at random. group i had inferior thyroid artery (ita) ligated but in group ii,ita was not ligated. results: 100 patients are operated,majority of them being female. kind of transit hypocalcaemia was observed in 4.5% patients in group i and 3.5% patients in group ii. permanent hypocalcaemia was observed in 1.5% and 1.10% patients in group i and group ii,respectively. results were statisticall insignificant (p value > 0.6). conclusion: the ligation of ita did not effect as an important causal factor for occurrence of postoperative hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy was performed in our study.