Steroid-responsive Hashimoto encephalopathy mimicking Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 719-722

  Santoro, Domenico ^a   Colombo, Irene ^a   Ghione, Isabella ^a   Peverelli, Lorenzo ^a   Bresolin, Nereo ^a   Sciacco, Monica ^a   Prelle, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti thyroid antibodies; Encephalopathy; Hashimoto; Steroids

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFTRIAXONE; DIAZEPAM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; VALPROIC ACID;

AGED; AGGRESSION; ALERTNESS; ANTIBODY TITER; APHASIA; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPREHENSION; CONFUSION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISORIENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FEVER; HASHIMOTO ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; STEROID THERAPY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

AGED; AGGRESSION; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AROUSAL; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONFUSION; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HALLUCINATIONS; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; THYROGLOBULIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054004348     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-011-0610-8     Document Type: Review

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