A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis
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....
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-13acacde5373480a8a6dc32f10d3da242022-12-22T01:21:31ZengSMC MEDIA SRLEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine2284-25942015-02-012110.12890/2015_00017875A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune ThyroiditisLaura Virginia Gonzalez0Acute Medicine, Great Western Hospital, SwindonAn 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.http://ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/178Confusion, encephalopathy, anti-TPO antibodies |
| spellingShingle | Laura Virginia Gonzalez A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine Confusion, encephalopathy, anti-TPO antibodies |
| title | A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis |
| title_full | A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis |
| title_fullStr | A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis |
| title_short | A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis |
| title_sort | rare cause of confusion steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis |
| topic | Confusion, encephalopathy, anti-TPO antibodies |
| url | http://ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/178 |
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