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/s41433-018-0302-1 Our 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.

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