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Methods: In this single-center retrospective analysis, we studied the outcomes of 72 patients who underwent surgery for pHPT. We evaluated two groups: those with cinacalcet therapy before operation\u2014the cinacalcet group (CG)\u2014and those without medical therapy preoperatively (non-CG). In order to perform a between-group comparison of time trends, we fit a linear mixed-effects model with PTH as the response variable and predictors PTH levels preoperatively, group (cinacalcet yes\/no), time, the group-by-time interaction, and a random intercept (per subject). Results: Our cohort included 51 (71%) women and 21 (29%) men, who were operated upon for pHPT in the period from January 2018 until August 2021. All patients were diagnosed with pHPT and 54% of the cohort were symptomatic for hypercalcemia. Moreover, 30% of the patients were treated with cinacalcet as a bridging therapy preoperatively, and this increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, as 64% of this group were treated in the last two years. Calcium values were significantly different before (p &lt; 0.001) and after (p = 0.0089) surgery, but calcium level change did not differ significantly between the CG and non-CG. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels dropped significantly in both groups during 10 min IOPTH monitoring (p &lt; 0.001), but there was no significant difference between the two groups (p = 0.212). Conclusions: In the examined patient cohort, the use of cinacalcet did not affect the value of IOPTH monitoring during surgery for pHPT.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm11072015","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,4]],"date-time":"2022-04-04T09:49:41Z","timestamp":1649065781000},"page":"2015","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["The Effect of the Frequently Used Cinacalcet for pHPT during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Perioperative Decrease in Parathyroid Hormone"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Olga","family":"Radulova-Mauersberger","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Julia","family":"Ke\u00dfler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ulrich","family":"Ke\u00dfler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Surgery and Endocrinology, Oberlausitz-Kliniken gGmbH and MVZ, 02625 Bautzen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katrin","family":"Stange","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Surgery and Endocrinology, Oberlausitz-Kliniken gGmbH and MVZ, 02625 Bautzen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sandra","family":"Korn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J\u00fcrgen","family":"Weitz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany"},{"name":"National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT\/UCC), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden\u2014Rossendorf (HZDR), 01307 Dresden, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0813-0136","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ulrich","family":"Bork","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"16033","DOI":"10.1038\/nrdp.2016.33","article-title":"Primary hyperparathyroidism","volume":"2","author":"Bilezikian","year":"2016","journal-title":"Nat. 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