Reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: An autoimmune brain disease in remission due to Graves’ disease

We hereby report a patient with seizure disorder who was on long term carbamazepine, admitted with features of thyrotoxicosis and cerebellar dysfunction. Anticonvulsant medications are cerebellar toxins; but in this case, reversal of cerebellar dysfunction was noted upon treatment of thyrotoxicosis...

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Autores principales: Prakasha, S. Rama, Suresh, G., Prakash, P. S., D'sa, Ivor Peter
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23869314
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.111675
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description We hereby report a patient with seizure disorder who was on long term carbamazepine, admitted with features of thyrotoxicosis and cerebellar dysfunction. Anticonvulsant medications are cerebellar toxins; but in this case, reversal of cerebellar dysfunction was noted upon treatment of thyrotoxicosis with antithyroid drugs.
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spelling pubmed-37123882013-07-18 Reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: An autoimmune brain disease in remission due to Graves’ disease Prakasha, S. Rama Suresh, G. Prakash, P. S. D'sa, Ivor Peter Indian J Endocrinol Metab Case Report We hereby report a patient with seizure disorder who was on long term carbamazepine, admitted with features of thyrotoxicosis and cerebellar dysfunction. Anticonvulsant medications are cerebellar toxins; but in this case, reversal of cerebellar dysfunction was noted upon treatment of thyrotoxicosis with antithyroid drugs. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3712388/ /pubmed/23869314 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.111675 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: An autoimmune brain disease in remission due to Graves’ disease
title Reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: An autoimmune brain disease in remission due to Graves’ disease
title_full Reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: An autoimmune brain disease in remission due to Graves’ disease
title_fullStr Reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: An autoimmune brain disease in remission due to Graves’ disease
title_full_unstemmed Reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: An autoimmune brain disease in remission due to Graves’ disease
title_short Reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: An autoimmune brain disease in remission due to Graves’ disease
title_sort reversible cerebellar ataxia with thyrotoxicosis: an autoimmune brain disease in remission due to graves’ disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23869314
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.111675
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