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DR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: More extensive total thyroidectomy than is needed in 50% of Cases with class V cytology.

Posted April 5, 2022 by Dr Guttler
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DR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: More extensive  total thyroidectomy than is needed in 50% of Cases with class V cytology.

DR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: More extensive total thyroidectomy than is needed in 50% of Cases with class V cytology. Dr.Guttler’s comments: 25%-50% of Bethesda V thyroid nodules may be benign, noninvasive follicular...

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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #17 Reduced Quality of Life with RAI/131 for Graves’ disease.

Posted March 10, 2022 by Dr Guttler
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Dr.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...

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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #14

Posted March 9, 2022 by Dr Guttler
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #14

Dr.Guttler’s comments: The patient’s QoL has not been an issue for physicians to study for most of medical history. Shameful neglect of QoL studies of thyroid patients that are not hyper or hypothyroid but just goiters or nodules...

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DR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #12 Patient satisfaction and quality of life in hypothyroidism:

Posted March 7, 2022 by Dr Guttler
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DR.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post #12 Patient satisfaction and quality of life in hypothyroidism:

Dr.Guttler’s Comments: In this study 969 hypothyroid patients answered the QoL questions. Dissatisfaction with treatment was common (77.6%), and overall QOL scores were low. There was no significant between LT4 vs LT4/LT3 combination...

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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: #11 Quality of Life in Patients With Hypoparathyroidism After Treatment for Thyroid Cancer

Posted March 6, 2022 by Dr Guttler
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: #11 Quality of Life in Patients With Hypoparathyroidism After Treatment for Thyroid Cancer

Dr.Guttler’s Comments: Thyroid cancers are usually treated with surgery. However small low risk papillary thyroid cancer can be treated without surgery. A major complication to be avoided if alternative therapy with radiofrequency ablation...

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Dr.Guttler’s #10 Patient Blog Post; Quality of life of patients more than 1 year after surgery for thyroid cancer

Posted March 6, 2022 by Dr Guttler
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Dr.Guttler’s #10 Patient Blog Post; Quality of life of patients more than 1 year after surgery for thyroid cancer

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 Patient’s Thyroid Blog Post #9

Posted March 6, 2022 by Dr Guttler
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient’s Thyroid Blog Post #9

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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The Patient’s Quality of Life and Emotional Issues with the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and Cancer

Posted February 18, 2022 by Dr Guttler
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The Patient’s Quality of Life and Emotional Issues with the Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules and Cancer

Dr.Guttler’s comments: There is the need for physicians to plan how to address their patients about thyroid nodules and cancer to lessen stress and emotional damage. All physicians taking care of thyroid patients with the prospect of...

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