Thyroid Eye Disease: Graves' disease and the associated eye changes (Graves' orbitopathy) are perplexing to the affected patient. The eye symptoms usually occur at the same time as thyroid disease, however they may precede or follow the obvious symptoms of the thyroid abnormality. Most patients with thyroid abnormalities will never be affected by eye disease and some patients only mildly so.

Although the frequency of ophthalmopathy related to thyroid disease is difficult to estimate, 80% of those patients with bilateral exophthalmos will have Graves' disease. The eye findings associated with Graves' disease can occur before, during, or long after the thyroid disease has been discovered or treated.

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