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The significance of ophthalmological features in diagnosis of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy
Background Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is an autoimmune disorder. It has discriminable appearance. This study was conducted to dig the clinical significance of demographic characteristics and ophthalmologic diagram features in TAO diagnosis ...
Xiao Huang +11 more
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Epigenetics effect on pathogenesis of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy [PDF]
Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is an autoimmune disease. Recent studies have found the aberrant epigenetics in TAO, including DNA methylation, non-coding RNAs, and histone modification.
Jia-Min Cao +4 more
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Treating Thyroid Associated Ophthalmopathy in Pediatric Patients
Thyroid associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is a common extra-thyroid clinical manifestation of Graves’ disease. It is an inflammatory disease of the eye and orbital tissues.
Tianyu Dong, Zhujun Fu, Xu Wang
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Thyroid Associated Ophthalmopathy
Thyroid associated orbitopathy/ophthalmopathy is an autoimmune disorder. It is most prevalent among females and is usually associated with thyroid dysfunction. Clinical manifestations include soft tissue signs, lid retraction, lid lag, proptosis, restrictive myopathy, corneal exposure and optic neuropathy. Thyroid function tests, thyroid antibodies and
Sonam Angmo Bodh +5 more
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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 +4 more
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Thyroid hemiagenesis associated with Graves' disease and graves' ophthalmopathy: case report [PDF]
Failure of embryologic development of a lobe of the thyroid gland is a rare anomaly. Usually, this condition is diagnosed when there are some other pathologic conditions in the gland and is often found when a patient presents with a thyroid nodule, which
A. Gokhan Ozgen +5 more
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Thyroid eye disease or Graves’ orbitopathy: What name to use, and why it matters
There is currently no universally accepted name for inflammatory disease of the eye and orbit associated with thyroid autoimmune disease. Variability in terminology impedes the evaluation of scientific literature and clinical collaboration and can affect
Lilly H. Wagner +5 more
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Diagnosis, Follow-Up and Treatment Results in Thyroid Ophthalmopathy [PDF]
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 +3 more
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(131)I and thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: Radioiodine ((131)I) used to obtain euthyroidism in thyrotoxic patients is suspected of having a worsening or provoking effect on thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO), an autoimmune disease closely related to Graves' disease. DESIGN: This review summarises the existing literature and describes risk factors influencing the course of TAO ...
A K, Rasmussen +2 more
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Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy and TSH receptor autoantibodies in nonmetastatic thyroid cancer after total thyroidectomy. [PDF]
In a 58-year-old woman with nontoxic nodular goiter, a fine-needle aspiration biopsy showed the presence of papillary thyroid cancer, which was treated with total thyroidectomy in June 2000 and a subsequent ablative dose of 131-radioiodine. A posttherapy
Tolari S +4 more
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