A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis

Gonzalez, Laura Virginia (2015) A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2 (1). pp. 1-2. ISSN 2284-2594

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Abstract

An 81-year-old female patient required numerous admissions for symptoms of confusion, visual hallucinations, myoclonus and seizures, which were treated as stroke, infections and viral encephalitis with some improvement after treatment but with recurrence that caused her to be readmitted to hospital. On the last admission, she was found to have very high antithyroid antibodies and a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s encephalopathy was made, with an overwhelming response to steroids.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Confusion, encephalopathy, anti-TPO antibodies
Subjects:	600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) > 616.4 Malattie del sistema emopoietico, linfatico, ghiandolare; Malattie del sistema endocrino
Depositing User:	Chiara D'Arpa
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2016 14:55
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2016 14:55
URI:	http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15004

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