Thyroid Surgery 101: What to Expect After the Surgery. Dr.Guttler’s Comments: 1.In general it is well tolerated. 2.However, there are some things that everyone can expect with any type of thyroid surgery. 3.You will experience some...
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Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (Lymphocytic Thyroiditis) 101: What you need to know. DR.Guttler’s Comments: 1.The term “Thyroiditis” refers to “inflammation of the thyroid gland”. 2.Hashimoto’s thyroiditis CHT, also known as chronic lymphocytic...
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Thyroid Nodules 101: Dr.Guttler’s 84 Rules on thyroid nodules The term thyroid nodule refers to an abnormal growth of thyroid cells that forms a lump within the thyroid gland. Although the vast majority of thyroid nodules are benign...
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Patient Diagnosed with Acromegaly During an Evaluation for Interventional Treatment for Her Goiter. The patient came for evaluation of her goiter but told me she was never diagnosed with acromegaly even though she had findings of widening shoe...
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Patient has a large mass in the lateral neck with normal thyroid examination and ultrasound. Bulging mass in the lateral right neck. FNA was negative for cells, but the needle washout for thyroglobulin was very positive at 11,049. N <1. The...
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Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis CHT 101: Rare Thyroid Lymphoma in Pre-exisiting CHT Dr.Guttler’s Comments on this article. 1.Any organ with lymphocytes can be home to a lymphoma. 2.CHT is loaded with lymphocytes that destroy the thyroid gland...
More infoThyroid Cancer 101: It is a Disease That Effects First Degree Family Members Does papillary thyroid cancer run in families? Answer is yes. Familial thyroid cancer: type of thyroid cancer that runs in families that is not medullary thyroid cancer...
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Medical Hall of Shame: Ignoring the USA Thyroid Medical Device Market for 15 Years The third place is a tie between: StarMed Korea: A manufacturer of safe proven thyroid friendly RFA system the is used for thyroid nodules and cancer since 2011...
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Thyroid Cancer 101: After 3 Surgeries,2 Radioiodine Treatments, and a New Lymph Node is Found to be Thyroid Cancer Again! This abnormal lymph node was biopsied and needle wash for thyroglobulin proved she had another neck recurrence.She had 2...
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Thyroid 101: Smokers and Your Thyroid DR. Guttler’s comments: Smoking can cause autoimmune changes and can cause worsening of thyroid eye disease. in Graves’ disease. Thyroid problems occur in much larger percentage of people and can...
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Hyperthyroid 101: Your Heart at Risk Dr. Guttler’s Comments One treatment: surgery may be linked with less cardiovascular risk than radioactive iodine ablation. However, RAI/131 is the most common form of therapy in the USA now. The risk...
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Hypothyroid Treatment 101: Does Changing the Dose of T4 to Varying TSH levels Effect Mood,Cognition or Quality of Life Q of L ? The Answer is No. JCEM May 2018 103 (5) 1997-2008 Samuels M.H. et al Comments on this article by Dr.Guttler...
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