The Role of the Orthoptist in the Management of Dysthyroid Eye Disease

Many terms have been used to describe the condition in which exophthalmos is linked with limited ocular movement and diplopia, the best known being exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia. In some cases of thyroid disturbance, however, there is exophthalmos with little or no ophthalmoplegia and in others there is ophthalmoplegia without the typical exophthalmos, now recognised through more sophisticated medical diagnosis. For these reasons the older terminology appears to have been superseded by the general term, Dysthyroid eye disease.