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Acquired Epiblepharon Alleviated With Teprotumumab Treatment in Active Thyroid Eye Disease Patient
- Source :
- Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery. 37(6)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- A 46-year-old Asian female patient with thyroid eye disease reported ocular irritation, eyelid swelling, diplopia, and pain with eye movement. The patient was diagnosed with active thyroid eye disease and secondary thyroid eye disease-acquired epiblepharon, which was causing bilateral punctate epithelial erosion. Treatment was started with newly U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved teprotumumab, an insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor inhibitor. Four infusion treatments later, the patient's epiblepharon was alleviated with minimal side effects. In this report, the authors present a case of thyroid eye disease-acquired epiblepharon resolving with teprotumumab treatment.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
endocrine system diseases
genetic structures
Ocular irritation
Eye disease
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
Ophthalmology
Female patient
medicine
Humans
Epiblepharon
Diplopia
Teprotumumab
business.industry
Thyroid
Eye movement
Eyelids
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
eye diseases
Graves Ophthalmopathy
medicine.anatomical_structure
Surgery
Female
sense organs
medicine.symptom
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15372677
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....61eb066b8f82e8e46231dd92ec9be5e1