Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

In this two-part series, we come to you LIVE! from the 2023 Annual meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons in Birmingham, Alabama. If you think evaluating and managing patients with primary hyperparathyroidism is difficult, patients with secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism can be even more difficult to evaluate and manage. Join Drs. Barb Miller, Sophie Dream, Jessica Liu McMullin, and Herb Chen as they break down the controversies and complexities associated with evaluation and management of these patients and discuss the recently published AAES guidelines on the definitive surgical management of patients with secondary and tertiary renal hyperparathyroidism. Part 1 focuses on the impetus for creation of these guidelines, the differences in evaluation and indication for surgery when seeing patients with renally mediated hyperparathyroidism, and preoperative planning. Part 2 focuses on intraoperative and postoperative management, parathyroid autotransplantation, and renal transplant re