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Y Regouby

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PubMed2001

[Hashimoto encephalopathy. Analysis of four case reports].

INTRODUCTION: Encephalopathy associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis has been recognized for more than 30 years and is probably underestimated. EXEGESIS: We report four patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis who presented neurological or psychiatric features. There were three women and one man, with a mean age of 68 years. Neurological presentations were various: seizures, psychotic episodes, altered consciousness, hallucinations without usual aetiological diseases (infectious, metabolic, neoplasic, vascular, etc.). Neurological investigations (EEG, brain CT, magnetic resonance imaging) were unspecific. In all cases, a moderately high CSF protein level without pleocytosis was found. Patients presented slight hypothyroidism with high titers of antithyroperoxidase antibodies. Despite hormone therapy replacement, neurological features persisted. Outcome was favorable under steroid therapy. CONCLUSION: Hashimoto's encephalopathy must be considered in the face of neuropsychiatric manifestations without obvious etiology. Pathogenic mechanisms are not clear but probably involve autoimmune cerebral vasculitis because of the efficacy of steroids.

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[Tumoral calcinosis in a white woman. Apropos of a case].

A new of tumoral calcinosis is described in a 91 years old woman. It is a rare condition that affect almost always black subjects. This benign disease is characterised by progressive increase of subcutaneous calcified masses near larger joints. Only four cases were yet reported in a white female.

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[The question of anhaptoglobinemia in immigrants from West Africa (author's transl)].

Studying the plasmatic level and the phenotype of haptoglobine (Hp) in 71 West Africans living in France, the authors did not record any case of absence of Hp (Hpo) and did not see any significant correlation between the Hp and the duration of stay in France. They conclude that Plasmodium falciparum likely does not play any role in the origin of the Hpo peculiarity in West African immigrants.

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