Abstract
Background:
Previous studies have shown that people with hypothyroidism improved after sleeve gastrectomy. This study was conducted on subclinical hypothyroid patients who had undergone bariatric surgery and were examined in terms of thyroid hormone changes in Shiraz.
Methods and Patients:
In this study, 20 obese subclinical hypothyroid patients who had undergone laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass surgery at Mother and Child Hospital and Shahid Faqihi Hospital were carefully examined.
Results:
The mean of weight before and 6 months after surgery was117.54 ± 6.81 (kg) and 88.39 ± 5.27 (kg), respectively (p = 0.003). The thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels were significantly decreased 6 months after the surgery (p = 0.005), but T3 and T4 levels were not changed 6 months after the surgery.
Conclusion:
The use of bariatric surgery in patients with hypothyroidism causes improvement after the operation. It has a decreasing effect on TSH levels in hypothyroid subclinical obese patients after surgery. Biochemical factors such as blood sugar and liver enzymes were compared between before and 6 months after surgery, and it was indicated that they their metabolic syndrome improved after surgery.
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