Santa Monica Thyroid Center’s Dr.Richard Guttler uses Dr.Carole Spencer’s USC Thyroid Laboratory Exclusively. When I stopped doing thyroid tests in my office under her supervision, I closed my thyroid lab and use her thyroid lab at...
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Why We Don’t Use Stimulated Thyroglobulin TG in Follow up of Thyroid Cancer: Neck Ultrasound and Suppressed TG Are Good Enough Neck Sonography and Suppressed Thyroglobulin Have High Sensitivity for Identifying Recurrent/Persistent Disease...
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Thyroid Specialists Comments on Patient’s Use of Thyroid Extract THE Sample of Comments by physicians about Adverse Events “I never prescribe THE, but new patients to me are taking it. I insist they switch to LThyroxine”. I...
More infoThyroid Treatment 101: Time to Get Rid of Thyroid Extract THE: 19 th Century Treatment in the 21 st Century. Shrestha RT et al Endocrine Practice 23(5) May 2017 Adverse effects from Armour thyroid ( thyroid hormone extract)THE 174 reports...
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What is Replacement Normal Thyroid Function For a Patient Without a Thyroid Gland on T4 Monotherapy? Ito Mitsuru et al Thyroid. April 2017, 27(4): 484-490 The objective of the present study was to clarify which is closer to their preoperative...
More info Thyroid pill taken with just water not milk,coffee,soy,calcium,iron,or food! Cow’s milk with calcium interferes with absorption of thyroid supplement levothyroxine Calcium is in milk. Taking the common oral thyroid hormone medication...
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Low risk conditions: < 2% risk: routine adult and children visits.Dementia, sleep apnea, mental disorders. Moderate risk (3-10%) Goiter,thyroid nodules, Lithium therapy, autoimmune diseases, Graves’ eye disease,Postpartum, elderly ,High...
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Thyroid Function and Longevity: Protective effect of Higher TSH with Aging 1.Free T4 and Free T3 are minimally decreased or no change with age. TSH increases with age. TSH distribution curve shifts to higher mean TSH with age. Age 20 1.4 age 80...
More info Resolve symptoms, and return TSH to normal. Grade A Lthyroxine LT4 is the first choice of treatment for all hypothyroid patients. Grade A Treatment TSH target range is 1-3 not the reference range of 0.5-5.0. Elderly over-treatment and with...
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8 /35 children with PTC had 10 fold elevation in stimulated thyroglobulin TG post surgery and ablation ( TG 95 vs 1040 p< 0040.) Also the Stimulated TG/TSH ratio was 12 fold higher (0.7 vs 13 p 0068) compared to the 27 with no distant spread...
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