title: A case of autoimmune thyroid disease presenting posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
abstract: A 40-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with disturbance of consciousness and seizure. We diagnosed encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroid disease (EAATD). Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and diffusion-weighted MRI demonstrated hyperintense lesions in the left occipitotemporal lobe on admission, but these findings disappeared on day 11 without neurological deficits, compatible with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES). We report here this case of autoimmune thyroid disease presenting as PRES.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stroke Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki City, Okayama 701-0192, Japan. ytate@nagasaki-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yohei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tateishi
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iguchi
authors.forename: Kazumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Junya
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: Junichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Uemura
authors.forename: Kensaku
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shibazaki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000473:pathology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology*; D013967:Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / Q000150:complications*