Thyroid Autoantibodies in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Subjects with and without Thyroid Disease: Implications for Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy

Table 1

Comparison of baseline characteristics and thyroid autoantibodies between two groups; data are given as mean (SD) or median (interquartile range); data from a patient with Hashimoto’s encephalopathy (HE) are also given for comparison.

	Patients with hypothyroidism ()	Controls ()	value	Patient with HE ()
Gender (M/F)	1/8	2/9		0/1
Age (mean age ± SD); years	73 ± 8 years	73 ± 6 years	0.653	65
Anti TPO plasma; U/mL	15 (8–23)	15 (7–21)	0.453	>1000
Anti-Tg plasma; U/mL	14 (11–16)	13 (10–41)	0.207	>1000
Anti-TPO CSF; U/mL	5 (5-5)	5 (5-5)		5
Anti-Tg CSF; U/mL	10 (10-10)	10 (10-10)		23