Quality of life of patients with thyroid eye disease: 3-year follow-up in a multidisciplinary clinic in Israel

• Published in: Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology Vol. 259; no. 7; pp. 2009 - 2015
• Main Authors: Zloto, Ofira, Sagiv, Oded, Priel, Ayelet, Cukierman-Yaffe, Tali, Tirosh, Amir, Agmon-Levin, Nancy, Madgar, Shiran, Serlin, Tal, Ben Simon, Guy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Decompression; Demography; Eye diseases; Eyelid; Immunosuppressive agents; Medical records; Medical treatment; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Oculoplastics and Orbit; Ophthalmology; Patients; Quality of life; Rehabilitation; Steroid hormones; Strabismus; Surgery; Thyroid; Thyroid gland; Israel; European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy; Thyroid eye disease; Graves’ orbitopathy; Quality of life

Background Changes in the quality of life (QOL) of patients with thyroid eye disease (TED) were examined during a 3-year follow-up in a multidisciplinary eye clinic, and factors that may improve QOL were identified. Methods A retrospective review of medical records of all patients who attended the T...