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Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease with a Five-Year Clinical Course, Multicentric Cerebellar Prion Plaques and Prior History of Biopsy-Proven Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: A Case for Iatrogenic Exposure?
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease that can arise spontaneously, genetically, or be acquired through iatrogenic exposure. Most patients die within a year of symptom onset. It is rare, affecting 1–2 per million per year, and the majority of cases are sp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7763133/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33302561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12121411 |
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author | Jeon, Kristina Joseph, Jeffrey T. Jansen, Gerard H. Peterson, Anne Knox, J. David Sim, Valerie L. |
author_facet | Jeon, Kristina Joseph, Jeffrey T. Jansen, Gerard H. Peterson, Anne Knox, J. David Sim, Valerie L. |
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description | Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease that can arise spontaneously, genetically, or be acquired through iatrogenic exposure. Most patients die within a year of symptom onset. It is rare, affecting 1–2 per million per year, and the majority of cases are sporadic. Primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) is also rare, affecting 2.4 per million per year. We present a case of an unusually long clinical course of CJD, almost five years, which began with symptoms of apraxia. The patient had biopsy-proven PACNS 16 years prior to clinical presentation, and the site of biopsy was the left parietal lobe. Autopsy revealed multicentric prion plaques in the cerebellum, in the setting of normal genetic testing. The presence of plaques in the cerebellum, and prior neurosurgery, raises the possibility of iatrogenic exposure. We present the details of this case, including pathology from the original biopsy and final autopsy, as well as a review of relevant cases in the literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-77631332020-12-27 Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease with a Five-Year Clinical Course, Multicentric Cerebellar Prion Plaques and Prior History of Biopsy-Proven Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: A Case for Iatrogenic Exposure? Jeon, Kristina Joseph, Jeffrey T. Jansen, Gerard H. Peterson, Anne Knox, J. David Sim, Valerie L. Viruses Case Report Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease that can arise spontaneously, genetically, or be acquired through iatrogenic exposure. Most patients die within a year of symptom onset. It is rare, affecting 1–2 per million per year, and the majority of cases are sporadic. Primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) is also rare, affecting 2.4 per million per year. We present a case of an unusually long clinical course of CJD, almost five years, which began with symptoms of apraxia. The patient had biopsy-proven PACNS 16 years prior to clinical presentation, and the site of biopsy was the left parietal lobe. Autopsy revealed multicentric prion plaques in the cerebellum, in the setting of normal genetic testing. The presence of plaques in the cerebellum, and prior neurosurgery, raises the possibility of iatrogenic exposure. We present the details of this case, including pathology from the original biopsy and final autopsy, as well as a review of relevant cases in the literature. MDPI 2020-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7763133/ /pubmed/33302561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12121411 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Jeon, Kristina Joseph, Jeffrey T. Jansen, Gerard H. Peterson, Anne Knox, J. David Sim, Valerie L. Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease with a Five-Year Clinical Course, Multicentric Cerebellar Prion Plaques and Prior History of Biopsy-Proven Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: A Case for Iatrogenic Exposure? |
title | Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease with a Five-Year Clinical Course, Multicentric Cerebellar Prion Plaques and Prior History of Biopsy-Proven Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: A Case for Iatrogenic Exposure? |
title_full | Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease with a Five-Year Clinical Course, Multicentric Cerebellar Prion Plaques and Prior History of Biopsy-Proven Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: A Case for Iatrogenic Exposure? |
title_fullStr | Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease with a Five-Year Clinical Course, Multicentric Cerebellar Prion Plaques and Prior History of Biopsy-Proven Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: A Case for Iatrogenic Exposure? |
title_full_unstemmed | Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease with a Five-Year Clinical Course, Multicentric Cerebellar Prion Plaques and Prior History of Biopsy-Proven Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: A Case for Iatrogenic Exposure? |
title_short | Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease with a Five-Year Clinical Course, Multicentric Cerebellar Prion Plaques and Prior History of Biopsy-Proven Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: A Case for Iatrogenic Exposure? |
title_sort | creutzfeldt–jakob disease with a five-year clinical course, multicentric cerebellar prion plaques and prior history of biopsy-proven primary angiitis of the central nervous system: a case for iatrogenic exposure? |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7763133/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33302561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v12121411 |
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