Recurrent Thyrotoxic Psychosis Associated With Fluctuation in Thyroid Status

Rathi, Manjusha

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“…Shortly after, she presented with extreme agitation, plus visual and olfactory hallucinations. The psychiatric symptoms improved after thyroid function stabilization 3 . Brewer and Herridge and Abey-Wickrama also reported cases where anti-thyroid drug therapy (carbimazole in both cases) for thyrotoxicosis has led to a hypothyroid state with the exhibition of psychotic features 4,5 .…”

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Psychosis associated with methimazole-induced hypothyroidism: a case report

Lazaro

Loureiro

Banzato

2013

J. bras. psiquiatr.

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Introduction: Thyroid dysfunction has often been associated with several psychiatric manifestations. Previous case reports/series suggest the possible role played by acute alteration of thyroid status in the onset of psychotic symptoms. Methods: Case report and literature review. results: A 45-year-old woman with no psychiatric antecedents was brought to the ER with a full-blown psychotic episode, marked by paranoid delusions, which developed gradually over two months. She had been treated elsewhere for hyperthyroidism for five years with methimazole 40 mg/d, with poor compliance. One month before the beginning of the psychotic symptoms, methimazole was raised to 60 mg/d and she started taking it correctly. Five months earlier she had TSH: 0.074 uUI/ml and free T4: 1.3 ng/dl. At admission we found a diffuse thyroid goiter, TSH: 70.9 uUI/ml and free T4: 0.03 ng/dl. Brain CT was normal. We hospitalized her with the diagnosis of a psychosis secondary to hypothyroidism, suspended methimazole, and gave her levothyroxine (up to 75 µg/d) and risperidone (2 mg/d). The patient had a quick remission and was discharged after 15 days. Within one month she had TSH: 0.7 uUI/ml and was completely recovered psychiatrically. She has been well since then, with risperidone in the first 8 months, and without it for 10 months now. Conclusion: This case report is a reminder of the necessity of checking thyroid status as part of clinical assessment of psychoses. It also supports the hypothesis that antithyroid drugs may have severe psychiatric consequences, especially when they lead to an acute change of thyroid status.

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“…Several clinical case reports have emphasized the possible role played by acute alteration of thyroid status in the onset of psychotic symptoms [3][4][5][6][7] . These case reports present patients with hyperthyroidism who were treated with antithyroid drugs and had an important and sudden change in their thyroid status followed by the outbreak of a psychosis.…”

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