%0 Journal Article
%T Hashimoto¡¯s Thyroiditis and Encephalopathy
%A David S. Younger
%J World Journal of Neuroscience
%P 307-326
%@ 2162-2019
%D 2017
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/wjns.2017.73026
%X 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.
%K Autoimmune
%K Encephalitis
%K Hashimoto
%K Thyroiditis
%K Encephalopathy
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=78768