A patient with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: challenges of rare diseases in the COVID-19 era

We describe a patient who presented to hospital during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD). The case demonstrates the typical clinical, radiological and laboratory features of this condition. It also highlights some of the challenges associ...

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Autores principales: McMurran, Christopher E, Chaggar, Gurjeevun H, Ugoya, Solomon O
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omaa113
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description We describe a patient who presented to hospital during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD). The case demonstrates the typical clinical, radiological and laboratory features of this condition. It also highlights some of the challenges associated with diagnosis and care of patients with rare diseases such as sCJD, and how these have been intensified by COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-77685332020-12-31 A patient with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: challenges of rare diseases in the COVID-19 era McMurran, Christopher E Chaggar, Gurjeevun H Ugoya, Solomon O Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report We describe a patient who presented to hospital during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD). The case demonstrates the typical clinical, radiological and laboratory features of this condition. It also highlights some of the challenges associated with diagnosis and care of patients with rare diseases such as sCJD, and how these have been intensified by COVID-19. Oxford University Press 2020-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7768533/ /pubmed/33391769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omaa113 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title A patient with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: challenges of rare diseases in the COVID-19 era
title_full A patient with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: challenges of rare diseases in the COVID-19 era
title_fullStr A patient with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: challenges of rare diseases in the COVID-19 era
title_full_unstemmed A patient with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: challenges of rare diseases in the COVID-19 era
title_short A patient with sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: challenges of rare diseases in the COVID-19 era
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