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PTERIONAL ORBITAL DECOMPRESSION IN PROGRESSIVE OPHTHALMOPATHY OF GRAVES‘ DISEASE
Author(s) -
ALGVERE P.,
ALMQVIST S.,
BACKLUND E.O.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1973.tb06026.x
Subject(s) - medicine , photophobia , surgery , visual acuity , graves' ophthalmopathy , decompression , eye disease , graves' disease , disease
Twenty‐seven patients with Graves' disease and progressive ophthalmopathy in an advanced stage underwent a transtemporal orbital decompression. The long‐term effects, i.e . after 11/2 2–7 years, are reported. As a rule, the beneficial results of the surgery were stable and long‐lasting. Visual acuity improved in 20 of 22 eyes in which it was reduced preoperatively. Regression of proptosis persisted in the majority of patients. The surgery permanently relieved photophobia in 17 patients and lacrimation in 18 of 27 patients.