Ramifications of untreated hypothyroidism: case report of cognitive impairment and acute psychosis in an elderly female

Hypothyroidism is a common condition in the general population. While myxedema is a known complication, we present a case highlighting a late-onset presentation of psychosis with confounding cognitive impairment in a patient who believed she no longer needed thyroid replacement medication because of...

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Autores principales: Leal, Janette C., Beito, Allison H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32944055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-020-00300-8
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spelling pubmed-74877972020-09-16 Ramifications of untreated hypothyroidism: case report of cognitive impairment and acute psychosis in an elderly female Leal, Janette C. Beito, Allison H. Ann Gen Psychiatry Case Report Hypothyroidism is a common condition in the general population. While myxedema is a known complication, we present a case highlighting a late-onset presentation of psychosis with confounding cognitive impairment in a patient who believed she no longer needed thyroid replacement medication because of her advanced age. BioMed Central 2020-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7487797/ /pubmed/32944055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-020-00300-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_full Ramifications of untreated hypothyroidism: case report of cognitive impairment and acute psychosis in an elderly female
title_fullStr Ramifications of untreated hypothyroidism: case report of cognitive impairment and acute psychosis in an elderly female
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title_short Ramifications of untreated hypothyroidism: case report of cognitive impairment and acute psychosis in an elderly female
title_sort ramifications of untreated hypothyroidism: case report of cognitive impairment and acute psychosis in an elderly female
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487797/
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