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CASE REPORT
Aqueous misdirection in thyroid eye disease
  1. Devjyoti Tripathy1,
  2. Aparna Rao2,
  3. Aniruddha Banerjee3,
  4. Debananda Padhy4
  1. 1Oculoplasty Services, LV Prasad Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
  2. 2Glaucoma Service, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
  3. 3Diagnostic service, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
  4. 4Glaucoma diagnostic Service, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar
  1. Correspondence to Dr Aparna Rao, aparna{at}lvpei.org

Summary

Secondary glaucoma in thyroid eye disease (TED) is attributed either to raised episcleral venous pressure or to mechanical compression induced trabecular meshwork damage by mucopolysaccharide deposition. While the mechanism for raised intraocular pressure (IOP) in TED is largely mechanical and is often evident during its active stage, our case presented with aqueous misdirection in the left eye during the inactive stage. Appropriate diagnostic tests should be ordered to diagnose cause of raised IOP, which would help determine appropriate treatment for the cause for secondary glaucoma in TED.

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