"' Stickler syndrome "'( hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy ) is a group of genetic disorders affecting connective tissue, specifically collagen.
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However, when subjected to closer inspection ( e . g . by magnetic resonance imaging of the orbits ) many more patients have evidence of ophthalmopathy.
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Since it is closely associated with Graves'disease, it is associated with other manifestations of Graves'disease, such as Graves'ophthalmopathy and thyroid dermopathy.
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About 20-25 % of patients with Graves'disease will suffer from clinically obvious Graves'ophthalmopathy, and not just from the eye signs of hyperthyroidism.
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Graves disease may also cause axial protrusion of the eye, known as Graves'ophthalmopathy, due to buildup of extracellular matrix proteins and fibrosis in the rectus muscles.
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Graves'disease patients manifesting moderate or severe Graves'ophthalmopathy are cautioned against radioactive iodine-131 treatment, since it has been shown to exacerbate existing thyroid eye disease.
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Other known triggers for ophthalmopathy include thyroid hormone imbalance, and tobacco smoking, but there has been little research attempting to confirm these are also risk factors for pretibial myxedema.
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In Graves ophthalmopathy, it is not uncommon to see an esotropia ( due to pathology of the medial rectus muscle ) co-morbid with a hypotropia ( due to pathology of the inferior rectus muscle ).
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There are suggestions in the medical literature that treatment with radioactive iodine for Graves'hyperthyroidism may be a trigger for pretibial myxedema which would be consistent with radioiodine ablation causing or aggravating ophthalmopathy, a condition which commonly occurs with pretibial myxedema and is believed to have common underlying features.
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Although it is true that in most patients ophthalmopathy, goiter, and symptoms of thyrotoxicosis appear more or less coincidentally, it is also true that in certain cases eye signs may appear long before thyrotoxicosis is evident, or become worse when the thyrotoxicosis is subsiding or has been controlled by treatment.
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