Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post : Postpartum T4 dose Adjustment in Pregnant Hypothyroid patients.
Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: Postpartum T4 dose Adjustment in Pregnant Hypothyroid patients Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Women need higher doses during the pregnancy to prevent adverse outcomes. Monitoring during pregnancy to keep...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post; Pain from Fine Needle Biopsies
Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post; Pain from Fine Needle Biopsies. Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. FNA is done with or without local anesthetic. 1-5 passes into the nodule is done. 2. Liu T. et al reviewed factors leading to pain...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: Concurrent Use of Thyroid Hormone Therapy and Interfering Medications in Older US Veterans
Modify your search Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: Concurrent Use of Thyroid Hormone Therapy and Interfering Medications in Older US Veterans. 1. Thyroid hormone management in older adults is complicated by comorbidities and...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Can PET/CT prevent surgery in Class III atypical thyroid nodules?
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...
More infoDr.Guttler’s website Thyroid.com is the first page of google sites for each of the main uses for radiofrequency and ethanol ablation.
Searches for “thyroidologist doing Radiofrequency ablation or ethanol ablation” for 1. benign thyroid nodules and thyroid and parathyroid cysts 2. micropapillary thyroid cancer. 3.recurrenct neck cancer lymph nodes. 4. Parathyroid...
More infoDiagnostic Parathyroid Ultrasound: Most successful imaging method in locating the Parathyroid adenoma in the neck.
Endocrine Practice 27 (2021) 1193-1198 Baser O.O. et al. DR.Guttler’s Comments: In 268/348 cases the US detected the location in 77% of the PTAs. Spect-CT 254/348 73% and parathyroid scan 209/348 60% Spect-CT was better at chest locations...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #22 Treatment of Thyroid Cancer with Radiofrequency Ablation part 3
Dr.Guttler’s comments: Complications, Protocol, Follow up and Conclusions 1. Complications are not common with treatment of small thyroid cancers but do occur. 2.RFA has an excellent safety profile for small thyroid cancers and benign...
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Do You Have a Hot Thyroid Nodule also called Autonomous Functioning Nodule? New treatment with radiofrequency ablation without either radioiodine or surgery. Do You Have a Hot Thyroid Nodule also called Autonomous Functioning Nodule AFTN? New...
More infoThyroid RFA: My Road Map to Success.
Thyroid Radiofrequency RFA Road Map to Success for Your treatment of Thyroid Nodule or Cancer. Do not settle for the surgeon’s initial recommendation, but seek outside opinions. Thyroid surgery is not an emergency even for thyroid cancer...
More infoRFA for thyroid cancer:2022 Review of the current literature
Dr. Guttler’s comments: 18/179 studies were included in this review. Results:RFA appears to be a safe alternative to surgery in selected cases. It is associated with a low risk profile. Also shows promising results in patients who are...
More infoCandidate Screening for Thyroid RFA
In all the procedures I have done with RFA for nodules and cancer I was tricked into doing the procedure on 2 patients who failed to disclose they had a problem that would have resulted in problems if not known before hand. Patient failed to list...
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