Dr.G’s Comments: 1.QOL issues are not considered because of the good prognosis. 2. 75/134 patients (56% ) Patients with persistent/prolonged calcium or vitamin D intake reported worse QOL one year after the surgery. 3.Domains of global...
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Dr.Guttler’s comments: Your Quality of Life can be affected just from that results of the thyroid surgery regardless of the thyroid disease prompting the surgery. Always get multiple opinions before any thyroid surgery especially if the...
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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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Case Finding Screening of First Degree Relatives of Patients with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Familial Risk of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Among First-Degree Relatives: A Population-Based Study in Korea Hyun Jung Kim,et al Background: Few...
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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 info 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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Micro-papillary Thyroid Cancer Treatment Options: 1.Surgery 2. Active Surveillance 3. RFA Ablation. Alternative #3 RFA without surgery or AS. Biopsy positive micro-papillary at 4.4 mm and 0.036 ml. Method # 3 RFA Case: 37 Y/O male with...
More info New research reveals that an artificial intelligence (AI) model, combining several methods of machine learning, precisely identifies thyroid cancer and predicts genomic and pathological results via examination of regular ultrasound images.The AI...
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Dr.Guttler’s #6 Patient’s Thyroid Blogpost: Small Micro-papillary Thyroid Cancer Treatment Options: 1.Surgery 2. Active Surveillance AS 3. RFA Ablation. Biopsy positive micro-papillary at 4.4 mm and 0.036 ml. Method # 3 RFA Case...
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Don’t Let The Surgeon’s Use of the Word “CANCER” Scare You into Surgery When Surgery is Unnecessary or Alternative treatment is available. Dr.Guttler’s Comments: People more likely to want unnecessary surgery...
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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...
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Thyroid nodule and Cancer surgical Pathology Reports: What Good Ones Should Include and When They May Have the Wrong Diagnosis. Dr.Guttler’s comments: Over 40 years treating patients with thyroid cancer and nodules I have encountered many...
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