Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: Long-Term Efficacy of a Single Session of RFA for Benign Thyroid Nodules. DR.Guttler’s comments: 1.Two hundred and fifteen patients were included. 2. An early significant reduction of nodule volume...
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Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: New treatment FDA approved for Thyroid Eye disease TED. Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. The FDA approved treatment for eye disease. 2. Thyroid Eye Disease TED is a lesser-known condition that affects five...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: The Gold Standard Thyroid Nodule Evaluation: How to have the best chance to avoid surgery. 1. Endocrine evaluation, TSH,FT4,TPO, TIRADS Ultrasound, FNA. 2. Low risk ultrasound and Class II cytology...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Why are so many patients with small thyroid cancers looking for alternatives to surgery? DR.Guttler’s comments: 1. Two major breakthroughs in 2018 have FDA approval of radiofrequency ablation...
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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 ...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post on Radiofrequency ablation for small thyroid cancers Dr.Guttler’s comments: Thyroid RFA can ablate the cancer without surgery or life long follow up as in Active surveillance. Not all patients...
More info Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Posts: PET/CT can it Prevent futile surgery on indeterminate thyroid nodules? This paper suggests the answer is yes. E. deKoster et al Eur J. Nucl Med Mol Imaging April 2022 49: 1970-84. Dr.Guttler’s...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Can PET/CT prevent surgery in Class III atypical thyroid nodules? A.Piccardo et al Endocrine 2020 69-533-561 Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. 111 patients were classified as Class III cytology. 67Class...
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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...
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Patient Thyroid BlogPost #18 Just Say No to Radioiodine for low risk Papillary thyroid cancer. Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. In patients with low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer undergoing thyroidectomy, the postoperative administration of...
More info Dr.Guttler’s Patient Blog Post #8 What the Patient Fears about Having a Thyroid Nodule Evaluation For Cancer and the Needed Treatment. From the moment the lump in your neck is noted by you, family member or your primary physician, the first...
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