Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 21 No. (1-2), 1989.
Preliminary communication
Ophtamological manifestations in graves-basedow disease
Miladin Štriga
Veronika Trčak-Ocvirek
Zlatko Balog
Abstract
Endocrine ophthalmopathy is an autoimmune genetically predisposed disease, manifested in a polymorphous clinical picture. Today it is considered an inflammatory disease, affecting oculomotor muscles and developing into dominant fibrosis. The evolution of the disease is unpredictable. Prognosis may be both favourable and unfavourable and complications range to malignant proptosis with damaged visual function, since the disease is mainly bilateral. Echography and computerized tomography usually resolve the diagnostic problem. Although better known today, pathogenesis still has some unclear areas and a few hypotheses exist which are not to be rejected. Medical treatment is conservative and only in some cases surgical with radiotherapy and orthoptic treatment. The term »endocrine ophthalmology« itself implies a multidisciplinary concerted work and expresses the need for cooperation of ophthalmologists and endocrinologists.
Keywords
Graves’ disease; eye manifestations
Hrčak ID:
196765
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1989.
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