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Delirium, Caused by Suspending Treatment of Hypothyroidism

Delirium, or acute confusional syndrome, is a set of symptoms whose care involves not only psychiatry, but also many other medical specialties. Being as how the syndrome is caused by multiple factors, it is important to recognize each risk factor affecting the patient in order to anticipate and prev...

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Autores principales: Hernández-Sandí, Alejandro, Quirós-Baltodano, David, Oconitrillo-Chaves, Michelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5136747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27994835
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/mi.2016.6787
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author Hernández-Sandí, Alejandro
Quirós-Baltodano, David
Oconitrillo-Chaves, Michelle
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description Delirium, or acute confusional syndrome, is a set of symptoms whose care involves not only psychiatry, but also many other medical specialties. Being as how the syndrome is caused by multiple factors, it is important to recognize each risk factor affecting the patient in order to anticipate and prevent it. In case of diagnosis, identifying and treating the root cause that triggered is important, given that it has a high rate of comorbidity and an elevated cost of medical care. We describe a case where a patient with hypothyroidism began suffering from delirium due to an abrupt discontinuation of levothyroxine treatment. Previously, the patient was seemingly healthy. After the medical treatment was interrupted, sensory processing and behavior were altered, and symptoms fluctuated, for a short period of time, showing disorientation and memory and language impairment.
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spelling pubmed-51367472016-12-19 Delirium, Caused by Suspending Treatment of Hypothyroidism Hernández-Sandí, Alejandro Quirós-Baltodano, David Oconitrillo-Chaves, Michelle Ment Illn Case Report Delirium, or acute confusional syndrome, is a set of symptoms whose care involves not only psychiatry, but also many other medical specialties. Being as how the syndrome is caused by multiple factors, it is important to recognize each risk factor affecting the patient in order to anticipate and prevent it. In case of diagnosis, identifying and treating the root cause that triggered is important, given that it has a high rate of comorbidity and an elevated cost of medical care. We describe a case where a patient with hypothyroidism began suffering from delirium due to an abrupt discontinuation of levothyroxine treatment. Previously, the patient was seemingly healthy. After the medical treatment was interrupted, sensory processing and behavior were altered, and symptoms fluctuated, for a short period of time, showing disorientation and memory and language impairment. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5136747/ /pubmed/27994835 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/mi.2016.6787 Text en ©Copyright A. Hernández-Sandí et al., 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Delirium, Caused by Suspending Treatment of Hypothyroidism
title_sort delirium, caused by suspending treatment of hypothyroidism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5136747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27994835
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/mi.2016.6787
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