Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
CASE REPORTS
The Delayed Diagnosis of Thyroid Storm in Patients with Psychosis
Yuki IshiharaTaku SugawaHiroki KanekoKaho Hiroshima-HamanakaAya AmanoHironobu UmakoshiMika TsuikiToru KusakabeNoriko Satoh-AsaharaAkira ShimatsuTetsuya Tagami
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2019 Volume 58 Issue 15 Pages 2195-2199

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We herein report two cases of patients with thyroid storm with a delayed diagnosis due to psychosis. The patients were a 63-year-old woman with bipolar II disorder and a 37-year-old man with major depressive disorder. The psychoses in both patients were well controlled with medication. Although they both showed symptoms of thyrotoxicosis, the symptoms were ignored, presumably because the psychological manifestations of worsening of psychosis and thyroid storm are similar. When the mental or physical state of patients with psychosis changes, thyroid hormone levels should be measured for early treatment.

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