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 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 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 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 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.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 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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