A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, rapid and fatal human prion disease that causes neurodegeneration. Rapidly progressive dementia, quick involuntary muscle jerking and specific radiographic and laboratory findings are characteristic of the disease. CJD should not be ruled even if the clinic...

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Autores principales: Dervishi, Mario, Lambert, Travis, Markosyan Karapetyan, Maria, Warra, Nader, Iskenderian, Ziyad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864281
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10038
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author Dervishi, Mario
Lambert, Travis
Markosyan Karapetyan, Maria
Warra, Nader
Iskenderian, Ziyad
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Lambert, Travis
Markosyan Karapetyan, Maria
Warra, Nader
Iskenderian, Ziyad
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description Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, rapid and fatal human prion disease that causes neurodegeneration. Rapidly progressive dementia, quick involuntary muscle jerking and specific radiographic and laboratory findings are characteristic of the disease. CJD should not be ruled even if the clinical presentation is outside the common age range. Herein we present a case of an 80-year-old man with probable diagnosis of CJD. The absolute diagnosis of CJD can only be confirmed post-mortem with a brain biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-74508802020-08-28 A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male Dervishi, Mario Lambert, Travis Markosyan Karapetyan, Maria Warra, Nader Iskenderian, Ziyad Cureus Internal Medicine Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, rapid and fatal human prion disease that causes neurodegeneration. Rapidly progressive dementia, quick involuntary muscle jerking and specific radiographic and laboratory findings are characteristic of the disease. CJD should not be ruled even if the clinical presentation is outside the common age range. Herein we present a case of an 80-year-old man with probable diagnosis of CJD. The absolute diagnosis of CJD can only be confirmed post-mortem with a brain biopsy. Cureus 2020-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7450880/ /pubmed/32864281 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10038 Text en Copyright © 2020, Dervishi 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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Dervishi, Mario
Lambert, Travis
Markosyan Karapetyan, Maria
Warra, Nader
Iskenderian, Ziyad
A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male
title A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male
title_full A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male
title_short A Rare Case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in an 80-Year-Old Male
title_sort rare case of creutzfeldt-jakob disease in an 80-year-old male
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864281
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10038
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