Endocrine disorders in toxic goiter in the postoperative period

The disturbances of endocrinous functions in patients with toxic goiter in the early postoperative period were more pronounced in the critical state and in the average gravity of the disease. The endocrinous disorders revealed were well corrected by antithyroid drugs, corticosteroids, neuroleptics and beta-adrenoblockers and in most of the patients they were found to disappear or to reduce to the preoperative level within 8 days after operation.