5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  40% of patients initiated thyroid hormone therapy within 2 years after hemithyroidectomy, with most starting in the first postoperative year.

• 2

  The study analyzed 8,467 adult patients who underwent hemithyroidectomy from 2003 to 2020 with normal preoperative thyroid function.

• 3

  Treatment initiation was more common in patients with thyroid cancer (73%) compared to those without (33%).

• 4

  Each 1 mIU/L increase in preoperative thyroid-stimulating hormone level was associated with 1.6 times the odds of initiating therapy.

• 5

  92% of treatment initiation events occurred within the first postoperative year, indicating a need for monitoring in select patients.