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BMC Ophthalmol
January 2025
Department of Ophthalmology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, No. 138, Sheng Li Road, Tainan, 704, Taiwan.
Background: To investigate the association between obesity and orbital fat expansion in proptosis of thyroid eye disease.
Methods: This observational study retrospectively enrolled 87 participants who received orbital fat decompression surgery for thyroid eye disease. Primary outcome measures included average body mass index (BMI) and the proportion of the study sample with overweight and obesity, compared with the general Taiwanese population.
Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg
December 2024
Department of Oculofacial Plastic Surgery, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.
Purpose: To compare regression rates, characteristics, and surgical outcomes of thyroid eye disease patients who underwent orbit, strabismus, or eyelid surgery at various times during or after teprotumumab treatment.
Design: Multicenter, retrospective, observational cohort study.
Participants: Adult patients (age >18) with a minimum of 4 infusions of teprotumumab treatment for thyroid eye disease who had had eye surgery during or after treatment.
Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg
December 2024
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Sickle cell disease is known to cause painful vaso-occlusive crises in long bones with large marrows. Orbital infarction is a rare complication of sickle cell disease and usually presents in children and adolescents with acute onset periocular swelling mimicking orbital cellulitis. We describe an atypical case of a 38-year-old man with homozygous sickle cell disease who presented with isolated, complete ptosis of his OD with minimal swelling.
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December 2024
Clinical Unit for Diagnostic Imaging, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
Background: Malignant dysgerminomas are infrequently reported ovarian neoplasms in animals, especially in exotic pets (non-traditional companion animals [NTCAs]). In the few published case reports on reptilian species, examples are primarily postmortem without antemortem (clinical) assessment.
Patient Presentation: An adult, 13-year-old, spayed female inland bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) presented with lethargy, a right-sided head tilt, unilateral exophthalmos and ventrotemporal strabismus on the right eye.
J ASEAN Fed Endocr Soc
December 2024
Department of Endocrinology, Singapore General Hospital.
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