Alemtuzumab, immune checkpoint inhibitors can cause TED

The medications most likely to cause thyroid eye disease are alemtuzumab, certain immune checkpoint inhibitors, amiodarone and lenalidomide, according to a review in Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.
“Medication-associated TED is an important diagnostic consideration in orbital inflammatory disease,” Terence Ang, PhD, of University of Adelaide, Australia, and colleagues wrote, adding that it “is rare and has been described as an [adverse effect] for several medications, particularly the class of monoclonal antibodies.”
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