Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: Long-Term Efficacy of a Single Session of RFA for Benign Thyroid Nodules. DR.Guttler’s comments: 1.Two hundred and fifteen patients were included. 2. An early significant reduction of nodule volume...
More info Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Posts: PET/CT can it Prevent futile surgery on indeterminate thyroid nodules? This paper suggests the answer is yes. E. deKoster et al Eur J. Nucl Med Mol Imaging April 2022 49: 1970-84. Dr.Guttler’s...
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Dr.Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Blog Post: Can PET/CT prevent surgery in Class III atypical thyroid nodules? A.Piccardo et al Endocrine 2020 69-533-561 Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. 111 patients were classified as Class III cytology. 67Class...
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Dr.Guttler’s Thyroid Patient Blog Post: When is Molecular Testing in Class III or IV nodules needed? Almost always! DR.Guttler’s Comments: The study results were that Cytology and Ultrasound were not able alone or together able to...
More info Thyroid RFA for Benign Nodules: Relief of Symptoms is the goal not total Ablation with increased risk of complications. The recent use of thyroid RFA for benign nodules has as it’s goal to relief symptoms and improve the cosmetic...
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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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Dr.Guttler’s comments: 1. Despite the increasing evidence of safety and efficacy of EA and RFA for benign thyroid nodules, there is still a large variation in the application of the different available techniques among different countries...
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Dr. Richard Guttler’s Patient Thyroid Radiofrequency Ablation Blog Post This is a blog dedicated to helping patients with the anxiety causing problem of determining if they need surgery for their thyroid solid or cystic benign nodule, thyroid...
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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: 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...
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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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