Encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroid disease in patients with Graves' disease: Clinical manifestations, follow-up, and outcomes

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tamagno, Gianluca ^a   Celik, Yahya ^b   Simó, Rafael ^c   Dihné, Marcel ^d   Kimura, Kazumi ^e   Gelosa, Giorgio ^f   Lee, Byung I ^g   Hommet, Caroline ^h   Murialdo, Giovanni ⁱ  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^e KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^f SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; THYROID ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HASHIMOTO ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; BLOOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951603993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-27     Document Type: Article

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