abriela Mintegui and Bryan Acosta
Thyroid eye disease (TED), also called dysthyroid orbitopathy or Graves ophthalmopathy, is an autoimmune disease of the orbit and retroocular tissues that occurs in patients with Graves’ disease and rarely in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. In 90% it`s associated with Graves-Basedow disease (GBD) and 10% in patients with hypothyroidism and euthyroid. Although Muralidhar’s study found that orbitopathy was present in patients with hyperthyroidism in 46%; hypothyroidism in 34% and euthyroidism in 20%. Between 30-50% of patients with GBS will develop TED throughout their lives [1-4].