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2. Graves' ophthalmopathy - Wikipedia

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   In mild disease, patients present with eyelid retraction. In fact, upper eyelid retraction is the most common ocular sign of Graves' orbitopathy. This finding is associated with lid lag on infraduction (Von Graefe's sign), eye globe lag on supraduction (Kocher's sign), a widened palpebral fissure during fixation (Dalrymple's sign) and an incapacity of closing the eyelids completely ...

3. Signs and symptoms of Graves' disease - Wikipedia

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   What can make things particularly difficult, is that many patients with hyperthyroidism have lid retraction, which leads to stare and lid lag (due to contraction of the levator palpebrae muscles of the eyelids). This stare may then give the appearance of protruding eyeballs , when none in fact exists. This subsides when the hyperthyroidism is ...

4. Lid lag - Wikipedia

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   Lid lag is the static situation in which the upper eyelid is higher than normal with the globe in downgaze. [1] It is most often a sign of thyroid eye disease, but may also occur with cicatricial changes to the eyelid or congenital ptosis. Lid lag differs from Von Graefe's sign in that the latter is a dynamic process. It can also be the ...

5. Hyperthyroidism - Wikipedia

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   Hyperthyroidism is the condition that occurs due to excessive production of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland. [3] ... In lid-lag (von Graefe's sign), when the ...

6. Graves' disease - Wikipedia

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   Normal thyroid levels are also seen, and occasionally also hypothyroidism, which may assist in causing goiter (though it is not the cause of the Graves' disease). Hyperthyroidism in Graves' disease is confirmed, as with any other cause of hyperthyroidism, by measuring elevated blood levels of free (unbound) T3 and T4. [citation needed]

7. Von Graefe's sign - Wikipedia

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   Von Graefe's sign is the lagging of the upper eyelid on downward rotation of the eye, indicating exophthalmic goiter (Graves' disease). [1] It is a dynamic sign, whereas lid lag is a static sign which may also be present in cicatricial eyelid retraction or congenital ptosis.

8. Common thyroid drug levothyroxine linked to bone mass loss - AOL

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   Conversely, hyperthyroidism — where thyroid levels are too high — is associated with weight loss and muscle weakness, high heart rate and blood pressure, feeling anxious and irritable.

9. Dalrymple's sign - Wikipedia

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   Dalrymple's sign is a widened palpebral (eyelid) opening, or eyelid spasm, seen in thyrotoxicosis (as seen in Graves' disease, exophthalmic goitre and other hyperthyroid conditions), causing abnormal wideness of the palpebral fissure.