Thyroid Hormone Therapy 101: Why You should Stick With Branded Synthroid. Dr.Guttler’s comments on this article. Patients in my practice are always offered a generic substitute for Synthroid. My RX states only brand with a DSW1 . Local...
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Thyroid 101: Beware of Generics, and Stick with Branded Thyroid Hormone Only. Thyroid medication – Levothyroxine and Liothyronine tablets – recalled over ingredient concerns A pharmaceutical company is voluntarily recalling a thyroid...
More info What is the best treatment for hypothyroidism? Comments by DR.Guttler While the majority of clinical thyroidologists still consider LT4 as then treatment of choice for hypothyroidism, the patients who are unhappy with LT4 therapy were the...
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Primary Care Physician’s 2018 Thyroid Patient Care Resolutions. Resolve to consider thyroid disease as a complicated area that requires consultation with expert endocrinologists. Don’t try to treat the patient without a consultation...
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Prepared by Dr.Guttler for thyroid patients. Resolve to see an endocrinologist or clinical thyroidologist to get an opinion if you are just seeing your primary physician. Resolve to tell your first degree relatives that you have a thyroid...
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Hypothyroidism Images 101: Hypothyroid Patient Before and After thyroid hormone replacement therapy Photo from an old thyroid textbook Swollen face from myxedema fluid before and after treatment with thyroid hormone. yellowish pallor...
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Thyroid Tumor Ablation with Radiofrequency RFA 101: The basics 1. Radiofrequency ablation is performed using a generator and internally cooled 7-cm electrodes with an 18-gauge active tip measuring 0.5, 0.7, or 1 cm. ...
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Subclinical Hypothyroidism 101: When to Treat? Diagnose and treat early to avoid hypothyroidism and to prevent goiter and nodule and thyroid cancer. Recent editorial in the NEJMed page 1404 October 5 2017 discusses pros and cons of treatment. My...
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Thyroid Cancer 2017: Gone is One Size Fits All: Surgery, Radioiodine and High Dose Thyroid Hormone is for a few not all. Even though most thyroid nodules do not contain cancer, the overall number of nodules being detected every year has made...
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Thyroid Goiters 101: Early Records What did We Learn? Today we still use iodine for endemic goiters, thyroid hormone , and ethanol for ablation of thyroid cysts and small primary thyroid cancers. After all these years surgery is still the most...
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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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Thyroid Cancer 101: 9 steps to Avoid Bankruptcy on your way to a Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis Thyroid Cancer patients are “almost three times more likely to declare bankruptcy,” 500,000 thyroid cancer survivors are subjected to more tests more...
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