Hypomania in a patient with congenital familial hypothyroidism and mild mental retardation.

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalSingapore medical journal
Year 1999
This is a case of a 25-year-old lady with congenital familial hypothyroidism and mild mental retardation presenting with an affective psychosis. The occurrence of hypomanic symptoms in a severe hypothyroid state is unusual and only one other case has been reported. The possible etiological role of a sharp fall in circulating thyroxine levels and its effects on cerebral catecholamines is proposed.
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