April - June 2014, Volume 10, Issue 2

Zosin I

Development of Cooperation between Endocrinologists and Ophthalmologists: European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO)

Acta Endo (Buc) 2014, 10 (2): 165-168
doi: 10.4183/aeb.2014.165

Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) is an autoimmune condition and the main extra thyroidal expression of Graves’ disease. Optimal management of GO comprises a coordinated approach addressing the thyroid dysfunction and the orbital disease, which requires a strict collaboration between internists/ endocrinologists, ophthalmologists/ orbital surgeons and basic scientists, in combined thyroid-eye units. European Group on GO (EUGOGO) is a multidisciplinary association of endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, neuroradiologists and epidemiologists from the European centers, who have special clinical and research interests in GO.

Keywords: Graves’ orbitopathy, EUGOGO.

Correspondence: Ioana Zosin MD, PhD, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Endocrinology, Str.Iosif Bulbuca 10, Timisoara, 300736, Romania, E-mail: ioana_zosin@yahoo.com