Pharmacological correction of the psychoemotional status with thyroid nodules during preoperative preparation

Psychological testing in 82 patients with thyroid nodular goiter and cancer revealed psychoemotional disorders as phobic anxiety syndrome with the signs of depression. Prior to surgery, 43 of the patients received symptomatic therapy and 39 took, in addition to the latter, the benzodiazepine anxiolytic phenazepam. Incorporation of the latter into the preoperative preparation regime resulted in psychoemotional improvement and a reduction in the number of postoperative complications that did not relate directly to surgical techniques (subtotal thyroid resection, hemithyroidectomy, thyroidectomy) from 20.9 to 5.1%.

thyroid nodules, psychoemotional status in patients, preoperative preparation, postoperative complications