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• 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.