Abstract
Thyroid eye disease (TED) usually has mild manifestations in pediatric patients, and orbital decompression is rarely necessarily. The authors present the clinical course of 3 pediatric patients age 16 or younger at the time of decompression surgery with severe orbitopathy. Case 1 is a 9-year-old prepubertal Asian-American female with Graves' disease and TED who underwent balanced decompression for compressive optic neuropathy. Case 2 is a 14-year-old white female with Graves' disease and TED who underwent balanced decompression for compressive optic neuropathy, stretch optic neuropathy, and globe subluxation. Case 3 is a 14-year-old African-American male with unilateral euthyroid TED who underwent staged right-sided lateral, medial, and floor decompressions for asymmetric proptosis. All cases also had disfiguring proptosis and exposure keratopathy, and in all cases, surgery successfully ameliorated the indications. Children, both pre- and post-pubertal, can rarely manifest visually threatening severe orbitopathy due to TED. This represents the first reports of thyroid-related optic neuropathy and globe subluxation in pediatric patients. Further studies examining the mechanism responsible for the disparities in pediatric and adult TED are warranted.
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