DOI: 10.12890/2015_000178

A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis

Authors

  • Laura Virginia Gonzalez Acute Medicine, Great Western Hospital, Swindon

lauravgonzalez@googlemail.com

Keywords

Confusion, encephalopathy, anti-TPO antibodies

Abstract

An 81-year-old female patient required numerous admissions for symptoms of confusion, visual hallucinations, myoclonus and seizures, which were treated as stroke, infections and viral encephalitis with some improvement after treatment but with recurrence that caused her to be readmitted to hospital. On the last admission, she was found to have very high antithyroid antibodies and a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s encephalopathy was made, with an overwhelming response to steroids.

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Published

2015-02-06

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015)

How to Cite

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Gonzalez LV. A Rare Cause of Confusion: Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated with Autoimmune Thyroiditis. EJCRIM [Internet]. 2015 Feb. 6 [cited 2026 Nov. 3];2(1). Available from: https://ejcrim.com/index.php/ejcrim/article/view/178

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