Thyroid gland has problems, but also have to be careful of eye involvement

I have a mentor who is a chief physician of orbital diseases. In his clinic, besides patients with various eye tumors, there are also a large number of patients with [thyroid-related eye diseases]. These patients, like many of our readers, may have many questions in their hearts. But the director is too busy to find time to answer them. So for a long time, we small doctors played the role of interpreter. The WeChat public number of thyroid doctor, like this [little doctor], explains thyroid-related knowledge to everyone. Today, we will talk about this special eye disease. Is what a thyroid-related ophthalmopathy? Some thyroid diseases belong to autoimmune diseases, that is, the immune system mistakenly attacks the human body’s own Read More …

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Hyperthyroidism exophthalmia is not beautiful, can surgery correct it?

Before, we shared with you the drug treatment methods for thyroid-related ophthalmopathy (click to read < < How to treat thyroid ophthalmopathy? Can it be cured? > >). Finally, it is also mentioned that many patients are concerned about the appearance of hyperthyroidism exophthalmos, which cannot be solved by drugs.Can surgery solve this problem? Today we will talk about the surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism exophthalmos. Thyroid-related ophthalmopathy can be divided into active phase and stable phase. Active phase refers to the active stage of orbital tissue inflammation of patients. In the stable period, there was no obvious inflammatory activity and the disease condition was relatively stable. The purpose of surgery is different in different disease stages. 1. Active Period During Read More …