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Thyroid Eye disease

Background

Thyroid Eye disease: Thyroid Ophthalmopathy; Thyroid Associated Ophthalmopathy; Graves' Eye disease; Graves' Ophthalmopathy

Thyroid eye disease is an autoimmune condition in which damage to the eye muscles and fatty tissue behind the eye is caused by the body's own white blood cells and antibodies.

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Medical text written April 2002 by Contact a Family. Last reviewed June 2007 by Dr R Stanhope, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, The Portland Hospital, London, UK.

 

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