Revisão de literatura sistemática: relação da tireoidectomia com a paralisia de prega vocal e a disfagia

Abstract

This research had as objective to do a systematic bibliography review, analyzing the current perspectives regarding to the relationship of dysphagia and vocal fold paralysis adjacent to thyroidectomy. This review happened from March to September in 2020, with the Virtual Health Library - VHL, MEDLINE / PubMed and Scielo, as the database for the research. It was chosen to select published articles among the years of 2015 to 2020, which reported the appearance of dysphagia and vocal fold paralysis in the pre or postoperative period of thyroidectomy. The descriptors used were: “Thyroidectomy”, “Vocal fold paralysis” and “Dysphagia. The used studies took place in the last five years of publications, showing the main results on this theme. Seventy-three from the seventy-five analyzed studies were excluded, because they did not present directly relationship with the objectives of the study and only one study linked dysphagia and vocal fold paralysis with the thyroidectomy. The last study related the symptoms from the deglutition after thyroidectomy. This (last) study allowed us to observe not only the scarcity of scientific studies when we consider the association of the two changes (dysphagia and vocal fold paralysis), but also the lack of information regarding to the demand of patients who suffer from the changes in the pre or postoperative period, that can may go unnoticed by the multidisciplinary team.