Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine (Jul 2014)

Hashimoto Encephalopathy in Case of Progressive Cognitive Impairment; a Case Report

  • Abbas Tafakhori,
  • Bahaadin Siroos,
  • Mojdeh Ghabaii,
  • Mohammad Hossein Harirchain,
  • Masih Tajdini,
  • Sushil Kumar Garg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v2i3.124
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3

Abstract

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Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is a rare condition characterized by atypical psychiatric and heterogeneous neurological manifestations such as acute cerebral ischemia, seizure, tremors, myoclonus, psychosis, depression, cognitive disorders, and fluctuating loss of consciousness. Here, a case of 28 year-old man was reported who referred to the emergency department (ED) with different acute neurologic disorders and final diagnose of HE.

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