ACTA MEDICA
ACTA MEDICA
Acta Medica (Hradec Králové) is an English language multidisciplinary medical journal. Acta Medica publishes reviews, original articles, brief communications, case reports, announcements, and notices. The journal was founded in 1958 under the title “A Collection of Scientific Works of the Charles University’s Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové”. The journal is indexed in Chemical Abstracts, CNKI, DOAJ, EBSCO, Hinari, Index Medicus, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Ulrichsweb.

ACTA MEDICA, Vol 64 No 1 (2021), 64–69

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
published online: 14. 04. 2021

abstract

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.

keywords: thyroid eye disease; tocilizumab

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ISSN: 1211-4286
E-ISSN: 1805-9694

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