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Nobuyuki Kobayashi1, Junichi Tajiri, Masahiro Takano
1Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Takano Hospital, 4-2-88 Obiyama, Kumamoto, 862-0924, Japan. n3koba-5zo6pu@nifty.com.
Introduction:
There are few reports on thyrotoxic psychosis caused by diseases other than Graves' disease or toxic nodular goiter.
Case Presentation:
A 64-year-old Japanese woman was treated for anxiety disorder in our clinic for 10 years. She had five episodes of transient psychosis during the first five years. When she developed psychosis without neck pain 10 years after her first visit, a laboratory reexamination revealed that she had subclinical hyperthyroidism, and tested positive for antithyroid autoantibodies, negative for thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody and had decreased radioactive iodine uptake. She was diagnosed as having painless thyroiditis. The hyperthyroidism disappeared within a month, and the psychosis lasted for three months.
Conclusion:
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of psychosis due to painless thyroiditis-induced hyperthyroidism. Physical symptoms of painless thyroiditis are often so mild that careful differential diagnosis is necessary in the cases of transient psychosis.
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