Steroid-responsive Hashimoto encephalopathy mimicking Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Neurol Sci
; 32(4): 719-22, 2011 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is a rare neurological disorder with a heterogeneous group of neurological symptoms associated with high titres of anti-thyroid antibodies. Clinical manifestations may include encephalopathic features such as seizures, behavioural and psychiatric manifestations, movement disorders and coma. The objective of this presentation is to describe a patient with this rare and controversial clinical syndrome mimicking Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, associated with a Hashimoto euthyroid thyroiditis and with a significant response to high dose intravenous prednisone. The responsiveness of this syndrome to steroids suggests that this disorder involves immune pathogenic mechanisms, as previous reviews reported.
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Encefalopatías
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Síndrome de Creutzfeldt-Jakob
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Enfermedad de Hashimoto
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Aged
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Humans
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Male
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2011
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