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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting with Abducens Nerve Palsy

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic clinical and diagnostic features. We describe the unusual case of an elderly man who presented to our ophthalmology clinic with horizontal diplopia secondary to an abducens nerve (cranial nerve six) palsy and wa...

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Autores principales: Anthony, Christopher M, Giles, Gregory B, Justin, Grant A, Wedel, Marissa L, Grant, Aaron D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31695983
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5564
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author Anthony, Christopher M
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description Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic clinical and diagnostic features. We describe the unusual case of an elderly man who presented to our ophthalmology clinic with horizontal diplopia secondary to an abducens nerve (cranial nerve six) palsy and was subsequently diagnosed with CJD. Given the non-treatable nature of this disease, ophthalmologic management goals included symptomatic relief and quality of life improvement. Precautions related to the ophthalmologic management of CJD have also been addressed in this case report.
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spelling pubmed-68206582019-11-06 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting with Abducens Nerve Palsy Anthony, Christopher M Giles, Gregory B Justin, Grant A Wedel, Marissa L Grant, Aaron D Cureus Ophthalmology Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder with characteristic clinical and diagnostic features. We describe the unusual case of an elderly man who presented to our ophthalmology clinic with horizontal diplopia secondary to an abducens nerve (cranial nerve six) palsy and was subsequently diagnosed with CJD. Given the non-treatable nature of this disease, ophthalmologic management goals included symptomatic relief and quality of life improvement. Precautions related to the ophthalmologic management of CJD have also been addressed in this case report. Cureus 2019-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6820658/ /pubmed/31695983 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5564 Text en Copyright © 2019, Anthony et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Giles, Gregory B
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting with Abducens Nerve Palsy
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title_full Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting with Abducens Nerve Palsy
title_fullStr Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting with Abducens Nerve Palsy
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title_short Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting with Abducens Nerve Palsy
title_sort creutzfeldt-jakob disease presenting with abducens nerve palsy
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820658/
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