What is an exophthalmos operation?

Exophthalmos is a condition where the eyeball protrudes, usually due to the thyroid disease causing inflammation and swelling of the tissues around the eye. Surgery for Exophthalmos involves removing some bone or fat next to the eye to create more space for swollen tissues and allow the eyeball to return to the place. Surgery and eyelid surgery may also be required to restore normal function and eye vision. The grave disease changes the metabolism of the thyroid gland, the gland becomes excessively active in a state known as hyperthyroidism. The thyroid can increase the size, causing swelling in the throat known as Goiter, and up to half of people with grave eye diseases can also develop thyroid disease with a certain degree of exophthalmos. In the disease of the thyroid eyes, the tissue and the muscles around the eye are swollen. Like eyeballs that are pushed forward so the corneal surfaces are no longer protected by the lids, there is also an arizic that the optical nerve connecting the eyeball with the moschKem can be damaged. The swollen eye muscles can also solidify so that the eyes no longer move and focus.

Exophthalmos surgery is usually performed only in serious cases, after the treatment of the associated thyroid condition, and if non -surgical treatments to reduce swelling such as drugs and radiotherapy could not work. Slight cases of exophthalmos may be resolved over time. When the optical nerve is threatened by damage or cornea is dry and ulcer because it is no longer covered with a lid, then the exophthalmos operation is usually required. Sometimes exophthalmos surgery is required because patients are desperate appearance of their eyes or pain is caused by swollen eye tissues.

The main type of exophthalmos surgery is known as orbital decompression, and it can invalid bone or fat or both of the eye. Each of the bone chambers, known as orbit that contains eyeballs, has four strawNY: roof, floor and inner and outer wall. There are a number of methods of surgery Exophthalmos, which may include the removal of bones from different sides of the orbit, but one common procedure is to enter into orbit by small cut in the lid and take the bone from the inner and outer walls along with a certain fat. Sometimes a keyhole surgery can be used, where an instrument similar to a telescope is introduced through the nose. The exophthalmos operation usually requires only one night spent in the hospital and the recovery occurs after several months.