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...
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 #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...
More infoDR.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...
More infoDr.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...
More infoDr.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...
More infoDr.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...
More infoThe 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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