THYROTOXİCOSİS RELATED PSYCHOSİS: A CASE REPORT

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 23 Sayı: 1, 27 - 30, 01.06.2015

Tolgahan Tuncal Melike Ezerbolat Ali Kemal Göğüş

https://doi.org/10.1501/Kriz_0000000344

Öz

Hyperthyroidism is a clinical syndrome which
may cause psychiatric symptoms like discomfort, motor or perceptive hyperactivity, emotional lability,
sleep disorders, attention-concentration-memory
problems, especially distractibility, hostile behaviours,
anxiety, phobias, disphoria, paranoid and referansial
thinking. In this report we present a 61-year-old male
patient with encoherans, desorganisation, distorted
reality testing who is diagnosed with hyperthyroidism.
After receiving medication for hyperthyroidism,
decrement in psychological findings were noted.
Psychosis due to hyperthyroidism and its course
were discussed in the light of previous reports in the
literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Hyperthyroidism, psychosis, organic psychosis

Tirotoksikoza bağlı psikoz: olgu sunumu

Öz

hiperaktivite, emosyonel labilite, engellenme eşiğinde düşme, uyku bozukluğu, özellikle distraktibilite şeklinde olan dikkat ve konsantrasyonda bozulma, bellekte dikkat bozukluğuna ikincil bozulmalar, hostil davranışlar, anksiyete, fobi, disfori, paranoid ve referans fikirlerin baskın olduğu psikotik belirtiler ile gidebilen klinik bir tablodur. Bu yazımızda 61 yaşında enkoherans, belirgin dezorganizasyon, gerçeği değerlendirmede bozulma tablosuyla kliniğimize başvuran hastanın hipertiroidi tanısı almasının ardından hipertiroidinin tedavisiyle birlikte psikiyatrik durumunda belirgin düzelme olması üzerinden, hipertiroidiye bağlı psikoz ve seyri literatür bilgileri eşliğinde ele alınmıştır

Anahtar Kelimeler

Hipertiroidizm, psikoz, organik psikoz

Kaynakça

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