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What causes Orbitopathy?

Leia Doyle

What causes Orbitopathy?

(Graves’ Ophthalmopathy or Graves’ Orbitopathy) Graves’ eye disease, also called Graves’ Ophthalmopathy or Thyroid Eye disease, is a problem that usually develops in people with an overactive thyroid caused by Graves’ disease (See brochure on Graves’ disease).

What is Thyroid Associated Orbitopathy?

Thyroid-associated orbitopathy (TAO), frequently termed Graves ophthalmopathy, is part of an autoimmune process that can affect the orbital and periorbital tissue, the thyroid gland, and, rarely, the pretibial skin or digits (thyroid acropachy).

What are signs of Ted?

The most common symptoms of TED include:

  • Bags under the eyes.
  • Blurred/double vision.
  • Change of the eyes’ appearance (usually staring/bulging)
  • Difficulty moving the eyes.
  • Dry or watery eyes.
  • Gritty feeling in the eyes.
  • Low tolerance of bright lights.
  • Pain in or behind the eye — especially when looking up, down, or sideways.

Where does infiltrative disease occur in the eye?

Infiltrative Disease. Infiltrative disease focused in the lacrimal gland, diffusely through the orbit including the sclera or optic nerve sheath, and possible midline disease with opacification of the sinuses with bony destruction. From: Roy and Fraunfelder’s Current Ocular Therapy (Sixth Edition), 2008. Download as PDF.

What does the word infiltrative mean in pathology?

What does infiltrative mean? Infiltrative is a word pathologists use to describe the movement of cancer cells from their normal location into the surrounding non-cancerous tissue. Another word for infiltrative is invasion.

What does infiltrative cardiomyopathies mean in medical terms?

The infiltrative cardiomyopathies are a diverse group of cardiac diseases that are characterized by the deposition of abnormal substances within the heart tissue that causes the ventricular walls to develop either diastolic dysfunction or, less commonly and more of a late presentation of the disease, systolic dysfunction.

Which is infiltrative disease focuses in the lacrimal gland?

Infiltrative disease focused in the lacrimal gland, diffusely through the orbit including the sclera or optic nerve sheath, and possible midline disease with opacification of the sinuses with bony destruction.