Abstract

MARRERO RODRIGUEZ, María Teresa; RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ, Julio César  and  ALAVEZ MARTIN, Ernesto. Ophthalmological evolution in hyperthyroid patients treated with radioactive iodine. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2005, vol.16, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2953.

This study was aimed at analyzing the ophthalmolgical evolution in hyperthyroid patients treated with radioactive iodine. 100 patients (88 females and 12 males) from the thyroid department of the National Institute of Endocrinology with clinical and biochemical diagnosis of hyperthyroidism and with a mean age of 40 ± 10 years old, were studied. These patients underwent a treatment with radioactive iodine at a dose of 80 m Ci/g of thyroid tissue. A bilateral ophthalmometry was performed to each patient before the treatment and 12 months after it. Mean ophthalmometry of the right eye was 14.51 ± 2.86 mm before the treatment and 13.92 ± 2.83 mm after the treatment, whereas for the left eye it was 14.98 ± 2.91 mm and 14.27 ± 2.83 mm , respectively. Taking into account the results of the ophthalmometry, we concluded that the use of radioactive iodine in the treatment of hyperthyroid patients had no negative results on the ophthalmological evolution of the studied patients.

Keywords : Ophthalmopathy; exophthalmus; hyperthyroidism; radioactive iodine.

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