Sarcouncil Journal of Medicine and Surgery

Abstract: This study aims to know the complications of thyroid surgery for pregnant Iraqi women and. Demographic information and data were collected from several different hospitals, where 170 women who underwent thyroid surgery were collected; they were divided into two groups (100 patients group, 70 control group). In this study, analyses were carried out to demographic data and related figures among patients by relying on the statistical analysis program IBM soft SPSS 25, as the figures depend on Microsoft Excel 2010 program. The results which found in this study of 170 patients were collected with the study period from (12-4-2020 to 11-5-2021) MEAN +SD to the age of the group of patients (29±5.6), as for the control group (31.1±4.9) In this study, the prevalence of complications was observed for 35 patients in the group of patients with 35 % and five patients in the control group with 7 %. The most common complications in this study were Hypocalcaemia for 14 patients, recurrent laryngeal nerve damage for five patients, Haemorrhage for five patients, and wound infection for 7 Patients. The rate of mortality was 2 % with the patient group, while for the control group, it was 1.4 %. Thyroidectomy can be safely performed in the second trimester of pregnancy or delayed until the postpartum period, depending on the gestational age.