Unconsciousness at Emergency as a Manifestation of Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy

Zhang Li, Hao Jinbo, Yu Nia

Abstract

Unconsciousness is a common symptom of the emergency cases with various and complicated causes. Now we presented 4 patients with the disturbance of consciousness as a clinical manifestation of Hashimoto’s encephalopathy (HE). All the four patients were suffered from different degrees of disturbance of consciousness at the emergency department and subsequently were diagnosed with HE at in-patient department. Finally, three patients of them got satisfactory prognosis and one patient died.