Psychiatric Symptoms due to Thyroid Disease in a Female Adolescent

The hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis is involved in the production of thyroid hormone which is needed to maintain the normal functioning of various organs and systems, including the central nervous system. This study reports a case of hypothyroidism in a fifteen-year-old female adolescent who was...

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Autores principales: Capetillo-Ventura, Nelly, Baeza, Inmaculada
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25436160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/972348
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description The hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis is involved in the production of thyroid hormone which is needed to maintain the normal functioning of various organs and systems, including the central nervous system. This study reports a case of hypothyroidism in a fifteen-year-old female adolescent who was attended for psychiatric symptoms. This case reveals the importance of evaluating thyroid function in children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-42369602014-11-30 Psychiatric Symptoms due to Thyroid Disease in a Female Adolescent Capetillo-Ventura, Nelly Baeza, Inmaculada Case Rep Endocrinol Case Report The hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis is involved in the production of thyroid hormone which is needed to maintain the normal functioning of various organs and systems, including the central nervous system. This study reports a case of hypothyroidism in a fifteen-year-old female adolescent who was attended for psychiatric symptoms. This case reveals the importance of evaluating thyroid function in children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric symptoms. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4236960/ /pubmed/25436160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/972348 Text en Copyright © 2014 N. Capetillo-Ventura and I. Baeza. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Psychiatric Symptoms due to Thyroid Disease in a Female Adolescent
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