Join Dr. Jose Lopez as he discusses the fundamentals of parathyroid disease — from diagnosis and patient workup to surgical techniques and achieving a definitive cure.
Learning Objectives
• To Understand the Basic Problem and Identify Parathyroid Disease
• To Understand the Workup of a Patient with Parathyroid Disease
• To Have a Basic Understanding of Parathyroid Surgery and the Importance of Surgical Cure
Objetivos de aprendizaje
• Comprender el problema básico e identificar la enfermedad paratiroidea
• Entender la evaluación clínica de un paciente con enfermedad paratiroide
• Tener un conocimiento básico sobre la cirugía paratiroidea y la importancia de la curación quirúrgica
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Target Audience: Endocrinology, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Nephrology
Release Date: 01/23/2026
Expiration Date: 01/23/2027
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Jose Lopez, MD: Co-Director, Parathyroid & Thyroid Institute, Tampa General Hospital
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Enfermedad de Paratiroide para el Paciente Hispano - Parathyroid Disease for the Hispanic Patient
Jose Lopez, MD
Jose A. Lopez, MD, is one of the most experienced parathyroid surgeons in the world today, having performed over 5,000 parathyroidectomies. He has dedicated the last 10 years of his career to the exclusive pursuit of parathyroid disease with particular focus on patients whose disease is complicated by scar tissue from prior surgeries and patients with coexisting thyroid tumors. Known for his exceptional surgical skill, Dr. Lopez has helped perfect the advanced techniques of minimally invasive parathyroidectomy used to quickly identify the four parathyroid glands in surgery. He has examined over 20,000 parathyroid glands and has helped train the most experienced handful of parathyroid surgeons worldwide who have followed him in this field. Dr. Lopez has operated on patients from nearly every U. S. state and multiple continents.