Key result
Hashimoto's encephalopathy is linked to persistent fever as a previously unrecorded clinical feature.
Why the study?
Persistent fever has not been previously recorded in patients with Hashimoto's encephalopathy, a rare association of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report documents persistent fever as a novel clinical feature of Hashimoto's encephalopathy.
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Persistent fever may expand Hashimoto's encephalopathy phenotype; single case leaves open whether causal or coincidental.
Hashimoto's encephalopathy is a rare association of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The clinical course is often characterised by relapses.1-2 Persistent fever has not been previously recorded in the literature. A 48 year old white woman was referred in April 1996 from a psychiatric clinic, where she had presented with psychotic episodes with gradual deterioration and been diagnosed as possibly having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. She was confused and had brisk tendon reflexes, an extensor left plantar response, bilateral moderate cogwheeling, action myoclonus, and nuchal rigidity. The gait was unstable and uncoordinated. …
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Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos (2000) conducted a case report in Hashimoto's encephalopathy (n=1). Hashimoto's encephalopathy was evaluated. A 48-year-old woman with Hashimoto's encephalopathy presented with persistent fever, a previously unrecorded clinical feature of this rare condition.
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