[Treatment of thyrotoxic ophthalmopathy]. 1990

S Djurica, and Lj Prokić, and B Ilić, and V Miletić
Word of Internal Diseases, Zvezdara Clinical and Hospital Centre, University School of Medicine, Belgrade.

Ophthalmopathy of Graves-Basedow disease appears in 20-50% of patients suffering from thyreotoxicosis. It is usually bilateralophthalmopathy with different degrees of severity. Many noninvasive diagnostical methods are used today. In diagnostic procedure, and especially in therapy, multidisciplinary approaches are compulsory. Although therapeutical effects vary from person to person, only a long follow-up can offer some clinical data about therapeutical success. The authors describe a 39-year-old woman with thyrotoxic bilateral ophthalmopathy. Thyrostatics, such as MMi and PTU, gave no satisfactory therapeutical results. Therefore a therapeutic dose of 131J was administered after which egsophthalmometry (Hertel) revealed regression of thyrotoxic ophthalmopathy, while the ocular signs were more pronounced after the partial thyroidectomy which had had to be carried out because of the existing thyroid functional nodule. The patient responded to corticosteroid therapy by showing a reduction in periorbital oedema, chemosis and hyperemia as well as by lowering the antibody titre against thyroglobulin and disappearing the serum immune complexes.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D005260 Female Females
D006111 Graves Disease A common form of hyperthyroidism with a diffuse hyperplastic GOITER. It is an autoimmune disorder that produces antibodies against the THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE RECEPTOR. These autoantibodies activate the TSH receptor, thereby stimulating the THYROID GLAND and hypersecretion of THYROID HORMONES. These autoantibodies can also affect the eyes (GRAVES OPHTHALMOPATHY) and the skin (Graves dermopathy). Basedow's Disease,Exophthalmic Goiter,Goiter, Exophthalmic,Graves' Disease,Basedow Disease,Hyperthyroidism, Autoimmune,Basedows Disease,Disease, Basedow,Disease, Basedow's,Disease, Graves,Disease, Graves',Exophthalmic Goiters,Goiters, Exophthalmic
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults

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