PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Babtain, Fawzi A.
TI  - Steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis presenting with late onset depression
DP  - 2010 Jul 01
TA  - Neurosciences Journal
PG  - 196--199
VI  - 15
IP  - 3
4099  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/15/3/196.short
4100  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/15/3/196.full
SO  - Neurosciences (Riyadh)2010 Jul 01; 15
AB  - Steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT), (also known as Hashimoto’s encephalopathy) is a rare autoimmune encephalitis associated with high antithyroid antibodies, and presents with a relapsing-remitting or monophasic course, consisting of confusion, seizures, psychosis, dementia, or stroke-like episodes. In this report, a late onset depression was the initial presentation of SREAT in a middle aged patient, something rarely described before, indicating the need to suspect SREAT as a possible etiology for depression in this age group.