A case of adrenoleukodystrophy presenting with manic symptoms in a patient on steroids for Addison's disease

Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is an X-linked disorder with diverse clinical presentations. A 30-year-old male, previously diagnosed with Addison's disease, on steroid supplementation for 18 years, presented to us with manic symptoms for 4 years. He was found to have white matter hypodensities in c...

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Autores principales: Jyothi, K. S., George, Cyriac, Shaji, K. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5270276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28197008
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.196705
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description Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is an X-linked disorder with diverse clinical presentations. A 30-year-old male, previously diagnosed with Addison's disease, on steroid supplementation for 18 years, presented to us with manic symptoms for 4 years. He was found to have white matter hypodensities in computed tomography head and had white matter signal changes in magnetic resonance imaging, and therefore a diagnosis of ALD was made.
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spelling pubmed-52702762017-02-14 A case of adrenoleukodystrophy presenting with manic symptoms in a patient on steroids for Addison's disease Jyothi, K. S. George, Cyriac Shaji, K. S. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is an X-linked disorder with diverse clinical presentations. A 30-year-old male, previously diagnosed with Addison's disease, on steroid supplementation for 18 years, presented to us with manic symptoms for 4 years. He was found to have white matter hypodensities in computed tomography head and had white matter signal changes in magnetic resonance imaging, and therefore a diagnosis of ALD was made. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5270276/ /pubmed/28197008 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.196705 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full A case of adrenoleukodystrophy presenting with manic symptoms in a patient on steroids for Addison's disease
title_fullStr A case of adrenoleukodystrophy presenting with manic symptoms in a patient on steroids for Addison's disease
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title_short A case of adrenoleukodystrophy presenting with manic symptoms in a patient on steroids for Addison's disease
title_sort case of adrenoleukodystrophy presenting with manic symptoms in a patient on steroids for addison's disease
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