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Thyroid eye disease: the importance of multidisciplinary treatment

Thyroid eye disease: the importance of multidisciplinary treatment

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Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 16/03/2019

Symptoms can be subtle as is the case of an eyelid retraction without cause (suddenly notice that an eye "jumpy" looks) or can be severe symptoms of ocular inflammation.

Dr. Jesus Guillermo Vera Hernandez

Thyroid eye disease is an autoimmune disease whose treatment is complex, it must be led by the hand of an endocrinologist and an expert ophthalmologist, especially in these diseases where anti - inflammatory drugs can be used in different types.

This condition occurs mainly when the defense system identifies the patient's own orbital and ocular tissues as foreign and attacks them, causing severe exophthalmos (bulging eyes out) and retraction inflammation of the eyelids. This disease is associated with the presence of antithyroid antibodies and often occurs parallel to the way thyroid disease.

Some more common manifestations

Because this disease is an autoimmune disease, the defense cells of people assaulted eye and orbital tissues, so that the trigger mechanisms not fully understood. Significantly, it is a disease that affects more women smoke snuff and severely worsens.

Symptoms can be subtle as is the case of an eyelid retraction without cause (suddenly notice that an eye "jumpy" looks) or can be severe symptoms of ocular inflammation such as redness, tearing, severe retraction of the eyelids to the degree of not to close them, exophthalmos (protruding eyes) and severe dryness.

As for treatment, in severe cases, radiation therapy and surgery are used to correct physical alterations. In people who have disorders that are not serious, but affect the aesthetics, it is possible to cosmetic surgery to give an acceptable appearance.

Unfortunately it is a disease that is not curable, but is controlled satisfactorily.

Ophthalmology