Acta Medica (Apr 2021)

Α Case of Severe Thyroid Eye Disease Treated with Tocilizumab

  • Aysel Mehmet,
  • Eirini-Kanella Panagiotopoulou,
  • Aristeidis Konstantinidis,
  • Charalampos Papagoras,
  • Panagiotis Skendros,
  • Doukas Dardabounis,
  • Athanasia Maria Mikropoulou,
  • Georgios Labiris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2021.12
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 64, no. 1
pp. 64 – 69

Abstract

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This is a case report describing a patient with severe thyroid eye disease complicated with dysthyroid optic neuropathy that was unresponsive to intravenous steroids and orbital radiotherapy but responded well to intravenous tocilizumab.

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