Infiltrative ophthalmopathy
- Infiltrative ophthalmopathy
Infiltrative Ophthalmopathy is found in Graves disease and resembles exophthalmos, except that the blurry or double vision is acquired because of weakness in the ocular muscles of the eye. In addition, there is no known correlation with the patient's thyroid levels. Grave's disease associated exophthalmos disappears when the thyrotoxicosis is corrected. Infiltrative ophthalmopathy at times may not be curred. The current hypothesis is that infiltrative ophthalmopathy may be autoimmune in nature targeting retrobulbar tissue.
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