[Clinical results with a complex conservative treatment method in infiltrative ophthalmopathy (preliminary report)]

The present methods for the treatment of infiltrative ophthalmopathy are still unsatisfactory, some of them associated with considerable and lasting side effects. Clinical results are present in the communication, from the application of an original therapeutic complex, consisting in the parallel administration of ACTH, intravenous infusions, moderate doses cortison, diuretics and sanation via antibiotics and eventual surgical intervention of the existing focal infectious agents. The complex is applied in the course of 4 weeks. Regression of the clinical symptomatics is observed and assessed by a particular method, it reaches an average of about 50 per cent of the initial manifestations. In 45 per cent of the patients the result was assessed as very good and excellent. The subjective complaints, congestion, chemosis and edema are best and most rapidly influenced, whereas exophthalmos and the eventual ophthalmoplegic phenomena showed no essential changes. The correlations between the results obtained, accompanying the disease (Basedow disease, focal infections) and the severity of ophthalmopathy were discussed. The method was admitted to be perspective, harmless and could ensure good and lasting therapeutic results of properly and persistently applied.