Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: List of Thyroid conditions can be treated without surgery with Ethanol or Radiofrequency Ablation. 1. Class II cytology benign thyroid nodules. 2. Proven benign class III and IV cytology nodules...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post; RFA for Parathyroid Adenoma PTA. Efficacy and Safety of Ultrasound-Guided Radiofrequency Ablation for Parathyroid Adenoma. Dr.Guttler’s comments: The imaging of the PHPT nodules should include ...
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DR. Guttler’s Comments: 1. A Pioneer in Minimally Invasive Surgery. 2. He is 101 years old and still has passion for his work. Arises early to walk go to the gym then spends 3 days a week at Cedars and the rest of the week he works form...
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One Visit Evaluation to See If you are a candidate for alternative therapy with ethanol or radiofrequency ablation with complete testing done by Dr.Guttler in His Office. One Visit Evaluation to See If you are a candidate for alternative therapy...
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1. Thyroid Nodules: Pure cyst or > 50 fluid use ethanol ablation PEI. Solid mixed cyst >50% use Radiofrequency ablation RFA. 2. Solid Thyroid Nodules: Toxic or Autonomous Functioning Nodule with Low TSH and High T4: Treat with RFA instead...
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Thyroid Ablation with Ethanol and Radiofrequency Ablation. Don’t be fooled by ads and websites by hospitals, universities, radiologists, surgeons who are new to Treating thyroid patients with thyroid radiofrequency or ethanol ablation treatment...
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Dr.Guttler’s comments: To prevent this serious complication, make sure you absolutely need the surgery. A total of 1000 RLNs from 574 patients were assessed in this review. Nearly one-quarter (23%) of the RLNs deviated from their...
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Thyroid 32(1) 2022 Tufano RP et al “The year of technical advances in treating nodules and cancer” Dr.Guttler’s comments on this special article on thyroid advances. The number of surgeries for benign nodules has shown a...
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Benign thyroid nodules class 11 are good candidates for Ablation. However, Class III will need more studies to be sure you don’t have a nodule with potential for thyroid cancer. A suspicious needle biopsy alone can lead to unnecessary...
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When do we need to use continuous infusion D5W for adequate hydrodissection protective effects? Ma Y. et al Eur. Thyroid Journal October 2021 DR. Guttler’s Comments on the article: Single bolus of D5W has a short half life in the body...
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Endocrine Practice 27(2021) 1205-1211 Tufano R. et al DR.Guttler’s Comments: 25 patients were treated with RFA for PTA. 29 enlarged glands were RFA treated. 22 had one session. 3 had 2 sessions. 84% cure rate. 12 month volume reduction in...
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