Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: Enhanced Well Being in Some Patients on Excessive Thyroid Hormone Replacement or With Untreated Graves’ Disease P. Perros et al Int.J. Endocrinology May 2022 Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Why Anti-Thyroid Drugs Are The Best Treatment Over Surgery or Radioiodine.
Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Why Anti-Thyroid Drugs Are The Best Treatment Over Surgery or Radioiodine. Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. This article reviews results in 4600 Graves’ patients. 2.Patients received ATD...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: maternal thyroid function and risk of gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia:
Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: maternal thyroid function and risk of gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia: Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. 46 528 pregnant women, of whom 39 826 (85·6%) women had sufficient data (TSH and FT4...
More infoDR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post#22 Yes, Runners Get Thyroid Disease, Too. Here’s Why That’s Confusing
Runner’s World Cindy Kuzma Mar 18, 2022 Last summer, as he prepared for the 2021 New York City Marathon, interval workouts like 800-meter and mile repeats still went fairly well. On his typically strong tempo and long runs, though, he...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #17 Reduced Quality of Life with RAI/131 for Graves’ disease.
Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Study was to assess QoL in patients 6–10 years after treatment for Graves’ disease. 2. Patients treated with RAI had worse thyroid-related and general QoL than patients treated with ATD.Surgery has...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #16 Miss leading paper of Quality of life after surgery for Graves’ and Toxic nodular goiter.
Dr.Guttler’s comments: In 2022 surgery and radioiodine are used less often than long term low dose Anti thyroid drugs. Surgery has it’s own loss of quality of life when complications occur and a scar is left , and life long thyroid...
More infoDR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #13
Quality of Life Impairment 6 months after therapy Toxic Nodules. Dr.Guttler’s comments: Just looking at Toxic nodules in this study. They looked at 68 patients with toxic nodular goiter. The patients were treated with antithyroid drugs...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Thyroid Blog Post #9 Open Letter to 10,000 Patients who have had a complete thyroid Evaluation by Me
Many of you are still seeing me to make sure your thyroid care for nodules, goiter, cancer and hormone dosing is adjusted as needed by 6-12 month check ups. Many have moved to general physicians in their network. Many have not had a dose change...
More infoDR.Guttler’s Patient’s #3 Blogpost: Thyroid Diseases 101: A Patient’s List Dr.Guttler’s comments:
Thyroid Diseases 101: A Patient’s List Dr.Guttler’s comments: The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped organ that sits in the front of the neck. It makes thyroid hormones triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). Hyperthyroidism is one of...
More infoRFA for Thyroid Nodules and Cancer:: Transformative Therapy With Abuse Risks
RFA for Thyroid Nodules and Cancer:: Transformative Therapy With Abuse Risks. Endocrine Practice 28( 2022) 233-234. Haymart MR et at Dr.Guttler’s comments. 1. RFA can and will change how we care for patients with nodules and cancer in the...
More infoWhat to Do When You are nervous about the finding of a possible cancer nodule in your neck?
1. Thyroid nodule: how is it diagnosed? The presence of goiter and thyroid nodules does not give rise to specific symptoms, unless the size is such that it causes compression of the trachea or oesophagus, leading to swallowing or breathing...
More infoRadiofrequency ablation RFA of Autonomous or Toxic Nodule Preserved Normal thyroid function compared to Radioiodine therapy..
Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. The major difference was not in nodule reduction or treating the hyperthyroidism, it was in the preservation of normal thyroid function, and avoiding radiation exposure in young adults. All patients responded to RI...
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