The etiology and pathogenesis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are elusive, the researchers noted. "The initial presentation typically includes dementia and neurological symptoms such as ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

Background/Aims Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare but important cause of rapidly progressive fatal dementia with significant public health implications. Troublesome motor symptoms include ...

He was diagnosed with probable sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and management prioritised comfort and care. He passed away two weeks following admission and a mere 8 weeks after the first ...

iss.it Methods We searched for other genes by performing genome-wide analyses (GWA) on 19 patients with genetic CJD and 18 healthy subjects carrying the E200K mutation of PRNP and belonging to the ...

People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed.