Eye Diseases
Conditions
Keywords
botulinum toxin, thyroid eye disease, lid retraction
Brief summary
In active phase of thyroid eye disease some patients have obvious upper lid retraction , and sometimes exposure keratopathy .To date there is not any standard treatment for this situation . We are going to compare the natural course of the upper lid retraction with injection of botulinum toxin A injection to upper lid percutaneously.
Interventions
Sponsors
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* all the patients wiht oper lid retraction in active phase of thyroid ophthalmopathy
Exclusion criteria
* patients in non active phase
Countries
Iran
Contacts
Primary ContactBabak Babsharif, MD
Outcome results
None listed