During that period he also worked at the Institute of Ophthalmology, where he also successfully treated a number of exophthalmos cases using the electrotherapy methods he had developed in Baghdad.
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Results of a study Beierwaltes reported in 1950 showed that he was able to use x-rays to prevent blindness in eight of eleven patients with a form of the disease exophthalmos.
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In 1896 he described a neurological disorder characterized by exophthalmos, diplopia, and anaesthesia in regions innervated by the trigeminal nerve, occurring with a traumatic collapse of the superior orbital fissure.
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Two signs are truly'diagnostic'of Graves'disease ( " i . e ., " not seen in other hyperthyroid conditions ) : exophthalmos and nonpitting edema ( pretibial myxedema ).
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Exophthalmos ( bulging eyes due to shallow eye sockets after early fusion of surrounding bones ), hypertelorism ( greater than normal distance between the eyes ), and psittichorhina ( beak-like nose ) are also symptoms.
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Other signs include periorbital edema and / or edematous swelling that resembles Romana s sign in Chagas disease, lacrimation, orbital cellulitis, exophthalmos ( protrusion of the eyeball ), and / or an exposed cornea ulcer.
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Known for his baritone voice and trademark combination of light blond hair and dark sunglasses ( which he wears due to exophthalmos ), Heino resides in the town of Bad M�nstereifel, where he owned a cafe until June 2012.
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Ophthalmopatic findings are more common but less severe in children ( severe infiltrative exophthalmos is virtually unknown before mid-adolescence ), but besides that, many of the typical clinical features of hyperthyroidism in children and adolescents are similar to those in adults.
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In 1982, Dr . Fakhri designed an electric stimulator that could be used without pain or discomfort to the patient as an alternative to ECT . He used it for the first time in the treatment of resistant skin burns, exophthalmos, psoriasis and aplastic anaemia.
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However, fair credit for the first description of Graves'disease goes to the 12th century Sayyid Ismail al-Jurjani, who noted the association of goitre and exophthalmos in his " Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm ", the major medical dictionary of its time.
