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The Application of Temperature Measurement of the Eyes by Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging as a Prognostic Factor of Methylprednisolone Pulse Therapy for Graves' Ophthalmopathy

, 2011
Purpose: Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO) involves autoimmune process resulting in proptosis, congestion, oedema and diplopia. Werner's NOSPECS classification and clinical activity score (CAS) of GO cannot objectively describe the inflammatory status. Digital
施翔蓉;李弘元;蕭永廉;張天鈞, SHIH, SHYANG-RONG;LI, HUNG-YUAN;HSIAO, YUNG-LIEN;CHANG, TIEN-CHUN   +1 more
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HLA-DR4 associated response to corticosteroids in Graves' ophthalmopathy patients

, 1990
Fifty-seven patients with severe Graves' ophthalmopathy were treated with corticosteroids. Therapeutic outcome was assessed according to predetermined criteria as response (n = 37) or non-response (n = 20) to therapy.
D'Amaro, J., Koornneef, L., Prummel, M. F., Mourits, M. P., van der Gaag, R., de Vries, R. R., Wiersinga, W. M., Schreuder, G. M., Berghout, A.   +8 more
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Increased percentage of L-selectin+ and ICAM-1+ peripheral blood CD4+/CD8+ T cells in active Graves' ophthalmopathy.

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica, 2009
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the percentage of CD4+/CD8+ peripheral T cells expressing CD62L+ and CD54+ in patients with Graves' disease and to assess if these estimations could be helpful as markers of active ophthalmopathy.
Alina Bakunowicz-Lazarczyk, Anna Stasiak-Barmuta, Janusz Mysliwiec, Przemysław Pawlowski, Maria Gorska   +4 more
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Graves\u27 Ophthalmopathy

, 1984
In patients with Graves\u27 ophthalmopathy muscle enlargement is due to the deposition of mucopolysccharides, fibrosis, mononuclear cell infiltration, and edema. The exact etiology of tills change is not known, but is thought to be on an autoimmune basis.
Robert A. Egan
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Bilateral severe Graves’ ophthalmopathy exacerbated by Ethiopian folk medicine: A case report

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology. Case Reports
This case report discusses a 48-year-old Ethiopian patient with Graves’ ophthalmopathy who turned to an Ethiopian folk remedy involving medicinal smoke, leading to the exacerbation of Graves’ ophthalmopathy.
Konstantin Yaakov Gushansky, Oren Iny, Elizabeth Tal-Mushinski   +2 more
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Medical management of Graves' ophthalmopathy

, 1995
In most patients with Graves' hyperthyroidism the eye signs are self-limiting and mostly subclinical. However, about one-third of the patients have clinically relevant ophthalmopathy, which can be disabling and disfiguring.
Prummel, M. F., Wiersinga, W. M.
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Euthyroid Graves' Ophthalmopathy With Negative Autoantibodies

, 2005
Graves' disease is an autoimmune-based hyperthyroidism in which a number of different antibodies directed against thyroid tissue plays a role. Graves' ophthalmopathy is thought to be a consequence of this autoimmune basis and occurs in some ...
Çakır, Mehtap
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Thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulins as measured in a reporter bioassay are not detected in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and ophthalmopathy or isolated upper eyelid retraction

Clinical Ophthalmology, 2014
Jack R Wall,1 Hooshang Lahooti,1 Ilhem El Kochairi,1 Simon D Lytton,2 Bernard Champion1 1Department of Medicine, the University of Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia; 2SeraDiaLogistics, Munich, Germany Abstract: Although ophthalmopathy is mainly ...
Wall JR, Lahooti H, El Kochairi I, Lytton SD, Champion B   +4 more
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Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Graves\u27 Ophthalmopathy

, 1990
Precise and reproducible ultrasonographic measurements of the extraocular muscles, particularly the medial, lateral and superior and interior recti, has greatly improved the diagnosis of Graves\u27 ophthalmopathy.
Robert H. Spector
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Effect of abnormal thyroid function on the severity of Graves' ophthalmopathy

, 1990
Many clinicians have the impression that treatment of thyroid dysfunction ameliorates ophthalmopathy in Graves' disease. The aim of our study was to relate thyroid function to the severity of Graves' ophthalmopathy.
Koornneef, L., Prummel, M. F., Mourits, M. P., van der Gaag, R., Wiersinga, W. M., Berghout, A.   +5 more
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