Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland causing over-production of thyroid hormone. Although this disorder can lead to systemic changes throughout the body, the most common extrathyroid manifestation of Graves’ disease is ophthalmopathy. Patients can have significant ocular prominence from the increase in intraconal and extraconal fat and muscular hypertrophy. This can lead to vision changes, decreased ocular motilit...

Introduction: Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland causing over-production of thyroid hormone. Although this disorder can lead to systemic changes throughout the body, the most common extrathyroid manifestation of Graves’ disease is ophthalmopathy. Patients can have significant ocular prominence from the increase in intraconal and extraconal fat and muscular hypertrophy. This can lead to vision changes, decreased ocular motilit...