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What is a TED flare?
A TED flare is when TED symptoms appear again after a period of stability. In a study of 415 patients, 15.7% of patients experienced recurrent TED. Most of these cases occurred within the first 1O years after the first episode of TED.
TED, Thyroid Eye Disease.
Watch an oculoplastic surgeon describe his role in managing patients with TED
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Management of TED by Oculoplastic Surgeons
Watch an oculoplastic surgeon describe his role in managing patients with Thyroid Eye Disease.
Don: An oculoplastic surgeon is usually one of the main caregivers of patients with Thyroid Eye Disease. We tend to see patients fairly early on in the disease. So, this may be fairly close to the beginning of their symptoms where the swelling, the redness occurs. I think we typically guide patients through this course of involvement of the eye. Sometimes it’s just a matter of observation and monitoring, where we check their vision and make sure they’re not progressing. And then in cases where patients either develop vision loss, or they develop problems with double vision, or even if the pressure builds up so high where we start to develop this congestion process, then we might even consider surgery. If I can make a difference for one patient, to me, that’s what medicine is all about.
TED, Thyroid Eye Disease.