Endocrine ophthalmopathy

Endocrine ophthalmopathy is an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the periorbital tissues and soft tissues of the orbit, most often associated with thyroid pathology, with an unfavorable cosmetic outcome, significantly impairs the quality of life and, in some cases, poses a threat to vision.

2022: Russian neurosurgeons start using method to restore vision without skin incisions

In July 2022, it became known that Russian neurosurgeons tested a new method of surgery, which allows you to fully restore vision after endocrine ophthalmopathy. The essence of the technology is that without skin incisions through the nasal cavity or through the eye under the control of a thin chamber, neurosurgeons penetrate the optic nerve in the place where this nerve enters the brain and frees it from compression.

No cutaneous incisions. Russian neurosurgeons began to use a new method of restoring vision after endocrine ophthalmopathy

{{quote 'The method was developed in Russia, and there is no such thing anywhere in the world. Successful operations have been carried out for more than one year, but only now, after the time has expired, the method showed absolute restoration of vision without recurrence of the disease, neurosurgeons are ready to present it to the public and show a unique operation in front of television cameras, "said TASS Doctor of Medical Sciences Neurosurgeon FSBI" Center for Brain and Neurotechnologies "of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) of Russia, Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery and Neuroreanimation of the Moscow State Medical University named after A.I. Evdokimov, Leading Researcher of the Department of Emergency Neurosurgery of the Research Institute of St. Petersburg named after N.V. Sklifosovsky Alik Kalandari. }} According to him, as a rule, endocrine ophthalmopathy develops against the background of thyroid disorders. With the normalization of hormonal disorders, visual disorders subsequently leave on their own. At the same time, in 20% of cases, persistent changes are formed that require surgery. For such patients, author's methods of decompression of the orbit have been developed, when the compression of the tissues of the orbit and optic nerve is eliminated.^[1]

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