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Dr. Richard Guttler
Specialty: Endocrinology and Metabolism
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Dr. Guttler has been a Thyroid Expert for 35 years, board certified in endocrinology, Clinical...
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Iodine Induced Graves' Disease Why Treat with Iodine?
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48 Y/O Female with hypothyroidism was treated with iodine pills and T3 cytomel. While on high dose T3 and iodine, she developed double vision and pop eye on the right. MR= swo ...
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Iodine Induced Graves' Disease Why Treat with Iodine?
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48 Y/O Female with hypothyroidism was treated with iodine pills and T3 cytomel. While on high dose T3 and iodine, she developed double vision and pop eye on the right. MR= swo ...
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"My Physician found my TSH was high, and started me on thyroid hormone. Why am I worried about...
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The answer to this Ask the Doctor email is yes. The finding of an elevated TSH or even a slowly increasing TSH over a few years is a clue to the onset of hypothyroidism. The a ...
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"My Physician found my TSH was high, and started me on thyroid hormone. Why am I worried...
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The answer to this Ask the Doctor email is yes. The finding of an elevated TSH or even a slowly increasing TSH over a few years is a clue to the onset of hypothyroidism. The a ...
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Surgery for Benign Thyroid Cystic Nodules? Not Anymore! There is a New Medical Treatment Using...
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42 year old female with a large visible mass on the right thyroid lobe. She had local symptoms and did not like the looks of the mass, as it distorted her thin neck. Her thyro ...
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Surgery for Benign Thyroid Cystic Nodules? Not Anymore! There is a New Medical Treatment Using...
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42 year old female with a large visible mass on the right thyroid lobe. She had local symptoms and did not like the looks of the mass, as it distorted her thin neck. Her thyro ...
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Thyroid.About.Com, the Source for Dangerous Thyroid Information has Done it Again. Now You Don't...
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The about.thyroid.com website, for alternative medical information has reached a new low. Patients with thyroid disease should NOT see an endocrinologist or thyroidologist. Th ...
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Thyroid.About.Com, the Source for Dangerous Thyroid Information has Done it Again. Now You Don't...
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The about.thyroid.com website, for alternative medical information has reached a new low. Patients with thyroid disease should NOT see an endocrinologist or thyroidologist. Th ...
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A German Story of a Failed Treatment Plan for a Radiation Exposured Patient With a Toxic Nodule,...
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A 45 Y/O female presented to my center with a thyroid nodule. The history was positive for radiation therapy for a skin problem as a child in Germany. At age 30 she had sympto ...
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A German Story of a Failed Treatment Plan for a Radiation Exposured Patient With a Toxic Nodule,...
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A 45 Y/O female presented to my center with a thyroid nodule. The history was positive for radiation therapy for a skin problem as a child in Germany. At age 30 she had sympto ...
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Mary Shomon, and the Medical Review Board of about.thyroid.com, on their Opinion on the Top...
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The last newsletter from Mary Shomon has her company's opinion on the top thyroid websites. I am honored to be listed alongside the Endocrine Society, and the American Thyroi ...
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Mary Shomon, and the Medical Review Board of about.thyroid.com, on their Opinion on the Top...
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The last newsletter from Mary Shomon has her company's opinion on the top thyroid websites. I am honored to be listed alongside the Endocrine Society, and the American Thyroi ...
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The Brits are Half Right, and Mary Shomon is as Usual All Wrong
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The national health service NHS, of the United Kingdom, has banned the use of Armour thyroid, compounded combination thyroid preparations, Cytomel, and other products with any ...
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The Brits are Half Right, and Mary Shomon is as Usual All Wrong
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The national health service NHS, of the United Kingdom, has banned the use of Armour thyroid, compounded combination thyroid preparations, Cytomel, and other products with any ...
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Thyroid Cancer: A Lesson in What Can Go Wrong with Multiple Unnecessary Surgeries
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39 Y/O female has a lump found below her right ear. First problem. A excision biopsy was done by an ENT without any ultrasound, or fine needle biopsy. It was papillary thyroid ...
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Pregnant, But is Your Baby Getting Enough Iodine from Your Prenatals ?
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The American Thyroid Association recommends prenatal vitamins with 150 mcg elemental iodine during pregnancy. The Institute of Medicine recommends 220 mcg iodine in pregnancy, ...
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Thyroid Nodule Therapy in Patients with Insulin Resistance
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Recent studies have shown that patients with high levels of insulin seen in obesity, diabetes, and in thin patients with insulin resistance have a larger thyroid gland by vol ...
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Beware of Generic Substitution of Your Thyroid Hormone Therapy
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160 adverse events happened in 2007 from switching sources of thyroid hormone, during an Endocrine Society and American Thyroid Association reported study. The FDA method of d ...
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What if My Primary Physician Tells Me I have a Single Thyroid Nodule?
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First of all do not panic. 31% of the time the palpation is NOT accurate. 16% of the time there is no nodule at all! The referral to the radiologist for an USGFNA may result i ...
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What do I Need to do Before my Thyroid Cancer Surgery?
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If you are told you have a positive cancer FNA biopsy result on a thyroid nodule, or they say it is suspicious for cancer, what do you neeed to be done BEFORE the surgery? Fi ...
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