Ocular Surface Disease Related to the Inflammatory and Non-Inflammatory Phases of Thyroid Eye Disease.
Cinthia Minatel RiguettoEduardo Buzolin BarbosaCamila Cristina AtiheFabiano ReisMonica AlvesDenise Engelbrecht Zantut-WittmannPublished in: Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) (2023)
Patients with GD were symptomatic and presented a high prevalence of ocular surface changes and DED, particularly the subgroup with inactive TED. Tear MMP-9 detection was associated with active TED suggesting a relationship between ocular surface changes and the initial inflammatory phase of ophthalmopathy.