Endocrine Abstracts

Graves’ disease (GD) and thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) are often observed together. In purpose to elucidate the pathogenetic relationships between these two autoimmune disorders we investigated profile of different autoantibodies in patients with GD without TAO (n=38, group 1), GD with TAO (n=40, group 2), and in healthy people (n=124, control group). Autoantibodies to thyroid gland, eye muscle cell membranes (Ab-EMCM) and skin fibroblasts w...