The following are the most important diseases or complications that can be caused by exophthalmos (protruding eyes):
Eyes and eye appendages (H00-H59).
- Desiccation keratitis (corneal damage due to desiccation)/exposure keratitis in the absence of/incomplete eyelid closure (lagophthalmos).
- Protrusio bulbi – protrusion of the eyeball from the orbit.
- Optic nerve compression in Graves’ disease with exophthalmos (2-5% of patients) – high pressure on the optic nerve, which can lead to visual impairment or blindness, as well as limitation of color vision.
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified (R00-R99).
- Eye burning
- Epiphora (“trickling of tears”; lacrimation).
- Motility disorders with or without double vision (diplopia).
- Periorbital eyelid edema
- Photophobia (light shyness)
- Retrobulbar sensation of pressure and foreign body or sand (” behind the eyeball”).
