English
SpanishTrusted Resources: Community Center
Online groups, photo galleries and blogs
Protect Your Eyes: A Baseball Player’s Story
Thyroid eye disease, also known as Graves’ eye disease, sometimes occurs in those with Graves’ hyperthyroidism. In patients with thyroid disease, the thyroid gland enlarges and produces excess hormones, which can cause an abnormal reaction in the muscles and fatty tissue around the eyes. Eye muscles and connective tissue in the eye sockets are particularly vulnerable to excess hormones, perhaps because the tissue contains proteins that the immune system recognizes as belonging to the thyroid gland.
Symptoms may include dry or watery eyes, a feeling of pressure in the eye socket, bulging eyes, sensitivity to light, double vision, or other vision issues. Swelling may cause the eyes to look puffy, and in some cases muscles may tighten and pull back from the eyes, causing a perpetually startled look.
Roughly one million Americans are diagnosed with thyroid eye disease each year, and women are more than five times more likely to get the disease than men.
myBinderRelated Content
-
Therapy of Endocrine Disease: Endocrine Dilemma: Management of Graves’ OrbitopathyManagement of Graves' orbitopathy (GO) m...
-
PREGO (Presentation of Graves’ Orbitopathy) Study: Changes in Referral Patterns to European Group On Graves...Background/Aims: The epidemiology of Gr...
-
Keith D. Carter, MD, FACSDr. Carter is a Professor of Ophthalmolo...
-
Sandy Zhang-Nunes, MDSandy Zhang-Nunes, MD, earned her underg...
-
Kyle Godfrey, MDKyle J. Godfrey, M.D. is an Assistant Pr...
-
Cesar A. Briceno, MDCesar A. Briceno is an Associate Profess...
-
Quality of Life and Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Patients With Graves’ Orbitopathy: Current ConceptsGraves' disease (GD) is an autoimmune ch...
To improve your experience on this site, we use cookies. This includes cookies essential for the basic functioning of our website, cookies for analytics purposes, and cookies enabling us to personalize site content. By clicking on 'Accept' or any content on this site, you agree that cookies can be placed. You may adjust your browser's cookie settings to suit your preferences. More Information
The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.
