Video Short: Marty's Eyes to Modern Medicines:The Future of Thyroid Eye Disease Treatment

Marty Feldman's iconic eyes were a result of his thyroid Eye Disease (Graves' ophthalmopathy) and a strabismus which was not corrected properly. Thyroid Eye Disease represents a spectrum of inflammation:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-018-0302-1Our understanding of Thyroid Eye Disease has been slowly increasing over the decades since his roles, but we still don't have a magic bullet to manage this complex condition which affects our patients in so many different ways.Future treatments will likely move beyond current anti-inflammatory and surgical interventions, and towards more personalized, targeted therapies, including new biologic treatments. I've just returned from the EUGOGO meeting in Warsaw, where both Ophthalmology and Endocrinology were well-represented, and it is an exciting time.I am cautiously optimisting about the current work being done. I also hope that advances in gene therapy, regenerative medicine, and precision medicine hold promise for repairing damaged tissues, reducing inflammation, potentially preventing TED in at-risk patients before it even develops.