Introduction Knowing mental representations about the phenomenon of illness and medical care allows clinical team to have better emotional handling their patients, with gains in greater adherence treatments. Graves’ Ophthalmopathy is an inflammatory disease primary involvement extraocular muscles orbit, being most frequent extrathyroidal manifestation Disease. Many patients psychological status...

Basedow-Graves disease is an autoimmune condition with multiple local and systemic aspects. Among these, oculopathy has a major impact on patient's life from both functional and esthetic point of view. Basedow-Graves oculopathy requires an appropriate positive and differential diagnosis using clinical and imagistic approaches. Treatment is always required in moderate or severe forms and it begi...

pretibial myxedema is an uncommon manifestation of graves' disease and because of its rarity, information regarding its natural course and its relationship with other manifestations of graves' disease is not sufficient. we reviewed 150 consecutive cases diagnosed as having pretibial myxedema in a twenty-year period in a tertiary care center. only one patient in this group did not have ophthalmo...

Exophthalmos makes up a clinical manifestation very frequent in Graves’ disease. European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy proposes intravenous glucocorticoids to treat severe, moderate-to-severe and active Graves’ orbitopathy as the first line treatment. The aim of our study is to report results obtained with patients treated for Graves’ ophthalmopathy with this protocol in real life. It is a desc...