Psychosis Crisis Associated with Thyrotoxicosis due to Graves’ Disease
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Psychosis Crisis Associated with Thyrotoxicosis due to Graves' Disease
We present the case of a patient with previous psychiatric illness, acutely exacerbated by thyroid storm due to Graves' disease, in whom treatment with antipsychotics induced catatonia. These associations are extremely rare and may be confused with Hashimoto's encephalopathy, especially in the presence of anti-thyroid antibodies in cerebrospinal fluid. The treatment consists in the control of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Psychiatry
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2090-682X,2090-6838
DOI: 10.1155/2017/6803682