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: New Drug for Graves’ Thyroid Eye Disease TED Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. An editorial on the new drug Teprotumumab for TED. 2. First Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved treatment for...
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: COVID-19 Vaccine Linked to Exacerbation of Graves Disease
Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Graves’ disease was triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Clinicians need to be vigilant of precipitation or exacerbation of autoimmune thyroid disorders in predisposed individuals after exposure to the...
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 infoThyroid Diseases 101: A Patient’s List
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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