Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: List of Thyroid conditions can be treated without surgery with Ethanol or Radiofrequency Ablation. 1. Class II cytology benign thyroid nodules. 2. Proven benign class III and IV cytology nodules...
More infoDr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Radiofrequency Ablation of Papillary Thyroid Micro-carcinoma.
Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Radiofrequency Ablation of Papillary Thyroid Micro-carcinoma. Dr.Guttler’s Comments: 1.Incidental finding pre-op bariatric surgery found a < 1 cm suspicious nodule. A before the RFA B shows...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Quality of Life After Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Dr.Valcavi’s group studied Forty patients (35 women and 5 men; age, 54.9 ± 14.3 years) with cold...
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Testimonial For Dr.Guttler From a Thyroid Cancer Patient ” This is my doctor. He is amazing. I was wary because he has reviews that are not favorable. Upon reading the reviews it’s clear that people have him poor reviews for two...
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DR. Guttler’s Comments: 1. A Pioneer in Minimally Invasive Surgery. 2. He is 101 years old and still has passion for his work. Arises early to walk go to the gym then spends 3 days a week at Cedars and the rest of the week he works form...
More infoDr.Guttler’s patient thyroid Blog post #14:Surgery vs RFA for micro-thyroid cancers.
Dr.Guttler’s comments: Surgery vs RFA for micro-thyroid cancers. RFA is the only treatment that dose not have a scar, surgical complications or the need to take thyroid hormone for life. There were significantly more patients with transient...
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...
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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...
More infoMicro-papillary Thyroid Cancer Treatment Options: 1.Surgery 2. Active Surveillance 3. RFA Ablation.
Micro-papillary Thyroid Cancer Treatment Options: 1.Surgery 2. Active Surveillance 3. RFA Ablation. Alternative #3 RFA without surgery or AS. Biopsy positive micro-papillary at 4.4 mm and 0.036 ml. Method # 3 RFA Case: 37 Y/O male with...
More infoDr.Guttler’s #6 Patient’s Thyroid Blogpost: Small Micro-papillary Thyroid Cancer Treatment Options: 1.Surgery 2. Active Surveillance AS 3. RFA Ablation.
Dr.Guttler’s #6 Patient’s Thyroid Blogpost: Small Micro-papillary Thyroid Cancer Treatment Options: 1.Surgery 2. Active Surveillance AS 3. RFA Ablation. Biopsy positive micro-papillary at 4.4 mm and 0.036 ml. Method # 3 RFA Case...
More infoDR.Guttler’s Patient’s #3 Blogpost: Thyroid Diseases 101: A Patient’s List Dr.Guttler’s comments:
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...
More infoIs Thyroid Radiofrequency Ablation Right for Treatment of Your Small Papillary thyroid cancer instead of thyroid surgery?
Dr.Guttler’s Comments: The answer is yes in selected cases. The Kaplan–Meier curves of follow-up in both groups. 1.In conclusion, this study of carefully selected PTMC, RFA did not have inferior oncologic outcomes after 5 years of follow-up...
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