Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO) is an autoimmune disease that affects particularly the retrobulbar soft tissues and represents the most common extrathyroidal manifestation of Graves’ disease (GD). Some studies suggest that GO in newly diagnosed patients in recent years has a trend towards a less severe clinical presentation, moreover we have no studies that focus the trend of clinical presentation of GO in the last decade on the population of our area.<p ...