Endocrine Abstracts

Since our first report on successful treatment of one patient with moderate-severe GO in 2006, several non-controlled studies have suggested that RTX can be more effective in active GO than intravenous methylprednisolone (ivMP). One randomised controlled trial comparing RTX to placebo and one comparing RTX to steroids in moderate-severe GO were recently published.We have randomised 32 patients with active moderate-severe GO to be treated with RTX or ivMP...

Biological therapies include interleukins, interferons, and MABs. Over the past few years, the use of MAB to treat cancer and other diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) have increased; some of these frequently cause endocrine side effects.Alemtuzumab, a MAB directed at CD52 on T and B lymphocytes, is very effective in reducing relapse rates and improving disability in relapsing remitting MS, however is frequently (16–35%) associated with the ons...

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