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Comparative evaluation of oculometric variables in graves' ophthalmopathy

Clinics, 2009
OBJECTIVES: To estimate oculometric parameters of Graves' ophthalmopathy in comparison to healthy eyes using digital photography and digital image analysis. INTRODUCTION: Graves' ophthalmopathy is the main cause of eye proptosis.
Hélio Amante Miot, Leonardo Parr dos Santos Fernandes, Edson Nassib Jorge, Daniel Rosito Pivotto, Célia Regina Nogueira, Gláucia Maria Ferreira da Silva Mazeto   +5 more
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Pathogenesis of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy: does autoimmunity against calsequestrin and collagen XIII play a role?

, 2010
Hooshang Lahooti, Kishan R Parmar, Jack R WallThe Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Nepean Clinical School, Penrith, NSW, AustraliaAbstract: Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO), or thyroid eye disease, is a complex inflammatory disorder ...
Hooshang Lahooti, Kishan R Parmar, Jack R Wall   +2 more
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Diagnosis, Follow-Up and Treatment Results in Thyroid Ophthalmopathy

, 2015
Objectives: To discuss our follow-up and treatment results in thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO). Materials and Methods: The records of 168 TAO cases who were followed at our clinic between October 1998 and October 2013 were reviewed ...
Kaan Gündüz, Savku, Esra, Esra Savku, Gündüz, Kaan   +3 more
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Prognostic indicators for the development of strabismus among patients with graves’ ophthalmopathy

Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology, 2017
Objective: Thyroid eye disease (TED), an autoimmune inflammatory process involving the orbital tissues around the eye, is the most common extra-thyroidal manifestation of Graves’ disease (GD). Due to changes in the patient’s appearance, TED is a socially
Tiffany Y. Lin, Ning Li, Michael W. Yeh, Angela M. Leung, Daniel B. Rootman   +4 more
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Age Influences the Severity of Graves' Ophthalmopathy [PDF]

, 2008
This study compared the ocular manifestations of Graves' disease in different age groups and between genders. This was a retrospective study with a chart review of 210 patients seen in the Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital Ophthalmology Department from
Lin, Muh-Chiou, Luo-Ping Ger, Bee, Youn-Shen, Muh-Chiou Lin, Hsu, Feng-Ming, Youn-Shen Bee, Ger, Luo-Ping, Feng-Ming Hsu   +7 more
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Eye findings and immunological markers in probands and their euthyroid relatives from a single family with multiple cases of thyroid autoimmunity

Thyroid Research, 2012
Background Ophthalmopathy is a common manifestation of Graves’ disease (GD) occurring in up to 50% of patients. Mild eye signs are also common in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
Ardley Melissa, McCorquodale Thomas, Lahooti Hooshang, Champion Bernard, Wall Jack R   +4 more
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Clinical polymorphism of endocrine ophthalmopathy [PDF]

, 2014
Purpose: to analyze clinical polymorphism of endocrine ophthalmopathy in patients with Graves’ disease.Methods: Clinical and radiological data of 18 cases with clinical manifestations of lacrimal gland increase were analyzed and compared with data ...
O. A. Gontyurova, V. A. Vygodin, T. N. Safonova, V. G. Likhvantseva, N. Y. Sviridenko, K. I. Tabeeva   +5 more
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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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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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Plasma exchange therapy for severe graves' ophthalmopathy

, 1986
In the present studies, the authors report on the treatment of nine Graves' disease patients with severe ophthalmopathy by use of intensive plasma exchange followed by immunosuppression (during three to six months). Results of treatment were evaluated by
Winand, René, Schrooyen, Marc, Glinoer, Daniel   +2 more
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