Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.20471/acc.2025.64.02.17

Awareness of the European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO) Guidelines and Their Practical Usage in Croatia: An EUGOGO Pilot Study

Jelena Juri Mandić ; Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia *
Maja Baretić ; Department of Endocrinology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Sanja Kusačić Kuna ; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Lorena Karla Šklebar ; Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Krešimir Mandić ; Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Antonela Geber ; Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Petra Kristina Ivkić ; Department of Ophthalmology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Jasenka Petrović Jurčević ; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Lelio Baldeschi ; Department of Ophthalmology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

This pilot study aimed to evaluate the awareness and practical usage of the European
Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO) Guidelines in Croatia, in view of a possible EUGOGO
survey on a larger scale. A 27-question anonymous online questionnaire survey was administered.
It included questions regarding EUGOGO activities (usage of proposed assessment tools while
diagnosing Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) and algorithms while treating GO), besides sociodemographic
data. The questionnaire was administered to endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, and nuclear medicine
specialists whose e-mail addresses were available in the published records of national scientific societies.
Collected data were processed and statistical analyses performed in Base SAS 9.4 (SAS Institute
Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA). Endocrinologists had the best response rate to the questionnaire.
Ophthalmologists and the youngest responders (age 25-35) displayed the best usage and knowledge
of the EUGOGO Clinical Evaluation Atlas and Guidelines. Responders who attended international
meetings regularly and those in higher levels of health care used the Guidelines more often in clinical
practice. This online survey proved to be a useful tool for obtaining data rapidly and inexpensively. It
provided clear figures concerning the awareness and practical usage of the EUGOGO Guidelines in
Croatia, thus it can represent the basis for larger EUGOGO survey.

Keywords

EUGOGO; Graves’ orbitopathy; Graves’ ophthalmopathy; Thyroid eye disease

Hrčak ID:

337639

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/337639

Publication date:

30.6.2025.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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