Apple TV and Roku are the leading set-top boxes, but there's a new player in town that's vying for the increasingly fractured attention of the American TV audience, and its name is Amazon Fire TV. Keep reading to see how Amazon Fire TV works and how it measures up to the competition. 1. 2.
Graves' ophthalmopathy (also known as thyroid eye disease (TED), dysthyroid/thyroid-associated orbitopathy (TAO), Graves' orbitopathy) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder affecting the orbit around the eye, characterized by upper eyelid retraction, lid lag, swelling, redness (erythema), conjunctivitis, and bulging eyes (exopthalmos).
Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid. The thyroid is a small gland in the front of the neck. It makes hormones called T3 and T4 that regulate how the body uses energy.Thyroid hormone levels are controlled by the pituitary, which is a pea-sized gland in the brain. Eye symptoms can occur before, at the same time, or after other symptoms of Graves' disease begin. 2  It may rarely occur in people with normal thyroid function. 3  We do not know why these eye problems occur. 4  They are more common in people who smoke, and smoking makes eye symptoms worse.