TITLE:
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Encephalopathy
AUTHORS:
David S. Younger
KEYWORDS:
Autoimmune, Encephalitis, Hashimoto, Thyroiditis, Encephalopathy
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Neuroscience,
Vol.7 No.3,
August
28,
2017
ABSTRACT: Although very rare, the literature
describes cases of Hashimoto encephalopathy attesting to its occurrence.
Affected patients present with seizures, stroke-like episodes, transient focal
and global neurological deficits, and a variety of neuropsychiatric disturbance
from dementia to hallucinations and psychosis. The encephalopathy evolves with
concomitantly elevated anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies, independent from
hormonal thyroid function setting it apart from thyrotoxicosis and myxedema. A
new patient reported with Hashimoto’s encephalopathy, in whom neurocognitive
impairment and stroke-like onset of hemiparesis and hemiparkinsonism correlated
with brain magnetic resonance imaging fused with positron emission tomography.