Psychiatric symptoms in a patient with isolated adrenocorticotropin deficiency: Case report and literature review

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 449.e3-449.e5

  Morigaki, Yoko ^a   Iga, Jun ichi ^a   Kameoka, Naomi ^a   Sumitani, Satsuki ^a   Ohmori, Tetsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACTH deficiency; Depression; Isolated; Neuroleptic malignant syndrome; Organic mental disorders; Psychotic disorders

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CREATINE KINASE; FOLLITROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OLANZAPINE; PROLACTIN; STEROID; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DELUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISORIENTATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEVER; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; OSSIFICATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPINE SURGERY; STEREOTYPY; STEROID RESPONSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH THYROIDITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROIDITIS; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY; COMPLICATION; DEFICIENCY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902840361     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2014.02.012     Document Type: Article

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