An unusual presentation of Hashimoto's encephalopathy

Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is a rare steroid-responsive encephalopathy syndrome, which can have highly variable neuropsychiatric manifestations and can go unrecognized for a long time. HE is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be kept in mind when evaluating a patient with a cognitive dysf...

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Autores principales: Philip, Rajeev, Saran, Sanjay, Gutch, Manish, Gupta, Keshavkumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24701441
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.126589
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description Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is a rare steroid-responsive encephalopathy syndrome, which can have highly variable neuropsychiatric manifestations and can go unrecognized for a long time. HE is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be kept in mind when evaluating a patient with a cognitive dysfunction and high titers of anti-thyroid antibodies as it responds dramatically to steroids. Steroid responsive myoclonus can be a presentation of HE.
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spelling pubmed-39687162014-04-03 An unusual presentation of Hashimoto's encephalopathy Philip, Rajeev Saran, Sanjay Gutch, Manish Gupta, Keshavkumar Indian J Endocrinol Metab Brief Communication Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is a rare steroid-responsive encephalopathy syndrome, which can have highly variable neuropsychiatric manifestations and can go unrecognized for a long time. HE is a diagnosis of exclusion and should be kept in mind when evaluating a patient with a cognitive dysfunction and high titers of anti-thyroid antibodies as it responds dramatically to steroids. Steroid responsive myoclonus can be a presentation of HE. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3968716/ /pubmed/24701441 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.126589 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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