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Thyroid Eye Disease, These assessments will be repeated throughout the course of the disease. Thyroid eye disease management Thyroid eye disease is a self-lim...
Thyroid Eye Disease, TED is sight-threatening in up to 5% of patients, although most cases are mild and self-limiting. [ 2 ] See also the separate articles Thyroid Function Tests , Hyperth...
Thyroid Disease and Surgery, Surgery has a significant role in the management of thyroid disease in patients with simple goitre , benign thyroid tumours , hyperthyroidism (incl...
Goitre (Thyroid Swelling), For example: Graves' disease - an autoimmune disease which causes the thyroid to swell and produce too much of the thyroid ho...
Overactive Thyroid Gland (Hyperthyroidism), They may be due to the antibodies affecting the tissues around the eye. See the separate leaflet called Thyroid Eye Disease for ...
Eye Problems, Conditions which affect the whole eye Thyroid eye disease In thyroid eye disease the muscles and fatty tissues within the eye socket (orbit) bec...
The Eye and Systemic Disease (Diabetes, MS, AIDS, Down's Syndrome), The ocular complications of thyroid eye disease may include corneal ulceration and visual loss [ 3 ]...
Examination of the Eye, Exophthalmometer - to assess proptosis (eg, thyroid eye disease ). There are several types of exophthalmometers, some of which measure the distance of the c...
Conditions Affecting the External Eye, Underlying causes should be managed (think of orbital diseases in proptosis: thyroid eye disease, orbital tumours, lacrimal gland tumo...
Thyroid Disease In Pregnancy, The need for screening of all women in early pregnancy, thyroid hormone placental physiology and thyroid hormone gestational reference ranges are areas ...
Disorders of soft tissues and extraocular muscles Graves' disease [ 1 ] . See the separate Thyroid Eye Disease article. Orbital myositis [ 2 ] . This is ...
The differential diagnosis of a third nerve palsy includes: Myasthenia gravis . Thyroid eye disease . Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia. Orbital inflammatory pseud...
Dry Eyes, Not covering the eyes completely when closing the eyelids For example, due to eye problems related to thyroid disease . , Sjogren's syndrome Dry ...
Thyroid Function Tests, This leaflet will only deal with the blood test that measures how your thyroid is working, not the specific diseases, such as Graves' disease...
Thyroid Cancer, People who have some non-cancerous (benign) thyroid diseases are more likely to develop thyroid cancer. For example, an enlarged thyroid g...
Thyroid and Parathyroid Problems, Symptoms and signs vary depending on the thyroid disease or problem - see the individual leaflets linked above for details. Thyroid...
Underactive Thyroid Gland (Hypothyroidism), Autoimmune thyroiditis - the most common cause in the UK The most common cause of having an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) ...
Dry Eyes, Look for signs which may indicate potential causes: local eye disease, skin disease, goitre, Parkinsonian signs, joint inflammation or deformity. As...
Thyroid Cancer, The five-year survival rate ranges from 89% in early disease to 5% in disseminated disease. How common is thyroid cancer? (Epidemiology) [ 9 ] ...
Much more rarely colour vision deficiency can develop later in life as a result of conditions such as: Thyroid eye disease . Diabetes mellitus . Cataracts . Glaucoma . ...