2023 Symposium on Parathyroid Fluorescence

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20 June 2024

Editorial: 2023 symposium on parathyroid fluorescence

Ilaria Di Meglio

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Saba P. Balasubramanian

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Richard Jaepyeong Cha

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Quan-Yang Duh

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Frédéric Triponez

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Frederic Triponez

Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (HUG)

Saba Balasubramanian

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Kerstin Lorenz

University Hospital in Halle

Richard Jaepyeong Cha

School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University

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Thyroid and parathyroid surgery has become very safe during the last century.

However, hypoparathyroidism remains a current concern, with significant, 1-30% rates of post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism leading to very significant long term complications and an increased mortality rate for patients suffering from permanent hypoparathyroidism. There is currently no gold standard on how to detect and preserve parathyroid glands and their vascularization during thyroidectomy.

New optical-based techniques, without radiation, have been developed to help detect parathyroid glands (in particular autofluorescence) and confirm their vascularization (in particular ICG angiography). This has opened a new, exciting area of research for surgeons and scientists. Some of these devices are now approved by the FDA and CE to help in “real-time location of parathyroid tissue during procedures such as thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy”.

This collection will gather up-to-date papers on this new topic, with the final aim to decrease the rate of post-thyroidectomy hypoparathyroidism. Most of the papers have been presented and discussed during the fifth “Symposium on Parathyroid Fluorescence (SPF)" held under the auspices of the International Society of Innovative Technologies for Endocrine Surgery (ISITES) held in Geneva in Feb 2023.

The open access of Frontiers will allow more people to have access to the latest
clinical and scientific knowledges regarding these promising techniques.

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Frederic Triponez

Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (HUG)

Saba Balasubramanian

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Kerstin Lorenz

University Hospital in Halle

Richard Jaepyeong Cha

School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University

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Frontiers in Endocrinology

Experimental Endocrinology, Translational and Clinical Endocrinology, Thyroid Endocrinology

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