Probable sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease mimicking focal epilepsy

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) presents with seizures as an early symptom in only approximately 3% of cases. These seizures often present as nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) or epilepsia partialis continua (EPC). Here, we describe a case of probable sporadic CJD (sCJD) in an 83-year-old man...

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Autores principales: Hsiao, Pei-Shan, Lee, Yuan-Ming, Chu, Fu-Sin, Lee, Chao-Lin, Liu, Fang-Chun, Tsai, Ping-Huang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6369248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30788213
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebcr.2019.01.006
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Sumario:Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) presents with seizures as an early symptom in only approximately 3% of cases. These seizures often present as nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) or epilepsia partialis continua (EPC). Here, we describe a case of probable sporadic CJD (sCJD) in an 83-year-old man whose manifest an unusual presentation of left-hand tonic seizures without evolution to EPC, as well as brain MRI findings interpreted as peri-ictal changes, which led to an initial misdiagnosis of focal epilepsy.

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