Graves Ophthalmopathy Overview

Graves' ophthalmopathy, also known as Graves' thyroid-associated or dysthyroid orbitopathy or exophthalmos, is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder affecting the orbit of the eye, with or without thyroid disorder. The first documented case of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy may have been in the sixth century, affecting Bodhidharma, who was the founder of Zen Buddhism and Kung Fu. In the medical literature, Robert James Graves, in 1835, was the first to describe the association...