Diabetes and Thyroid Center

Founded in 1985, ViMUT-Theptarin is Thailand’s first diabetes and thyroid center with the mission to introduce to Thailand diabetes team care which aims at patient education to enable patients to care for themselves and reduce risk of developing complications and disabilities. Apart from focusing on education for patients, ViMUT-Theptarin also works on education for medical personnel with the purpose of multiplying members to support diabetes team care throughout Thailand.  With said mission, it also focuses on research to follow new knowledge and to create new knowledge from its own

Diabetes Service

ViMUT-Theptarin believes in a team-care approach. Diabetes care team consists of a doctor, diabetes educator, dietitian, foot care specialist, and exercise specialist with “patient” as the most important team member. The team also works and communicates closely with other health care personnel who might be caring for the same patient at the same time to provide
seamless and synchronized care.
 

• Diabetes risk assessment service
• Lifestyle modification service
• Blood glucose control service
• Diabetes-related complication care service
• Foot and wound care service
• Eye care service

Modern Medical Thinking

The most important factor for success in diabetes care is not technology or medical equipment but is the understanding and knowledge about disease and how to modify lifestyle and cope with the disease happily. ViMUT-Theptarin diabetes team shares the same goal with our patients.
Our duty is to enable our patients to understand the disease, live a happy and healthy lifestyle to slow the progression of diabetes and stay away from complications as long as possible.
And for those at risk, our duty is to intervene early to prevent them from entering the
diabetes zone.

• Endocrinologists and diabetologists - diagnose and prescribe treatment with goal of best quality of life in the long run
• Diabetes educators - be a companion to help patient understand and able to walks on a life path with diabetes
• Dietitians - go deeper into details of food, the most important lifestyle factor that impacts your diabetes
• Pharmacists - provides suggestions and recommendations on how to manage your medications
• Exercise specialists - design a routine physical activities that matches your like and your physical ability
• Laboratory team - control quality of all laboratory results for doctors and other diabetes team member can accurately follow your diabetes progress and adjust treatment and recommendations accordingly

• Diabetes team follows the advancement in knowledge, techniques, and technology in diabetes care and implements into our clinical service if appropriate for patient’s benefits.
   

• Off-loading technique to prevent weight bearing and allow for wounds to heal.
• Lengthening tendon technique to stop recurring wounds
• Body composition analysis to provide information on current status of bodyweight, set goal, and follow progress
• Weight-bearing and gait analysis to see distribution of weight while standing and walking and adjust for balance
• Stress test to analyze stage of stress
• Blood circulation assessment to determine possibility of wound healing
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy to enhance blood circulation and allow for faster wound healing
• Maggot technique for wound healing

Thyroid Service

Founded in 1985, ViMUT-Theptarin is Thailand’s first thyroid clinic offering comprehensive thyroid diagnosis through care under one roof. Diagnosis will be done by analyzing physical examination, medical history, laboratory results, and ultrasound images by experienced thyroid specialists. Thyroid specialists will then together with the patient review pros and cons then select the most suitable care for each person. Available care ranges from medication, radioactive treatment, alcohol injection, and surgery. With advanced knowledge and a wide range of service options, surgery is currently only performed in thyroid cancer cases.

• Medication
• Radioactive (iodine-131) treatment
• Surgery
• Alcohol injection
• Follow ups

Who should receive a thyroid check

Thyroid hormones need to be balanced. When thyroid gland produces too much or too little of thyroid hormones, body function will become abnormal and can lead to several symptoms such as weight loss, weight gain, palpation, anxiety, frustration, etc. A lot of these symptoms are mistaken for cardiovascular diseases.