Double vision main indication for therapy in half of patients with Graves’ orbitopathy

CORONADO, Calif. — The main indication for therapy was double vision in around half of patients with moderate to severe Graves’ orbitopathy, according to study findings presented at the American Thyroid Association Annual Meeting.Peter Laurberg, MD, MSc, and colleagues from the department of endocrinology and ophthalmology at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark, evaluated 210 patients with incident moderate to severe Graves’ orbitopathy. Grid-based planimetry from charts was used to measure fields of double vision and motility restriction.