MANAGEMENT OF DYSTHYROID EYE DISEASE

Management of dysthyroid eye disease.

Once the diagnosis of thyroid eye disease has been made the doctor's problems begin because the management is long term with a condition that has many ramifications over a period of years. Short-term heroics to save vision by use of high-dose systemic steroids, orbital decompression or radiotherapy may have to be followed by control of diplopia by muscle surgery and prisms. Lid retraction, both...

Amiodarone and dysthyroid eye disease.

Orbital decompression for severe dysthyroid eye disease.

Current methods of medical treatment of this difficult condition are briefly reviewed, with comments on the generally unsatisfactory response. Attention is therefore directed to surgical methods and a short history given of the various routes used for orbital decompression. The author's own results of transantral, and more recently ethmoidal, decompression are given, with a detailed description...

Dysthyroid eye disease. A trial of guanethidine eye drops.

Previous reports have indicated the usefulness of Io per cent. Guanethidine eye-drops in reducing lid retraction and relieving symptoms in patients with dysthyroid eye disease (Sneddon and Turner, I966; Gay and Wolksteip, I966; Crombie and Lawson, I967). Administration of these eye drops produces local irritation in about 50 per cent. of patients and, although this is rarely severe, superficial...

Surgical management of strabismus for dysthyroid ophthalmopathy.

BACKGROUND The study reports our 8-year experience in the surgical treatment of restrictive myopathy resulting from dysthyroid ophthalmopathy. We tried to determine the factors that contributed to favorable surgical outcomes. METHODS The charts of patients who had surgical treatment for strabismus related to dysthyroid ophthalmopathy at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital between January 1995 and De...