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Negative Diffusion Weighted Imaging on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2020
A 76-year-old Caucasian woman initially presented to the Duke Memory Disorders clinic with a 9-month history of a rapid decline in cognitive, motor, and neuropsychiatric function.
Elijah Lackey, Deepal P. Shah-Zamora, Jodi Hawes, Andy J. Liu   +3 more
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Clinical perspectives of emerging pathogens in bleeding disorders. [PDF]

, 2006
As a result of immunological and nucleic-acid screening of plasma donations for transfusion-transmissible viruses, and the incorporation of viral reduction processes during plasma fractionation, coagulation-factor concentrates (CFC) are now judged safe ...
Bozzette, Samuel, Diamond, Michael, Koerper, Marion A, Kulkarni, Roshni, Ludlam, Christopher A, Powderly, William G, Ritchie, Bruce, Siegel, Jamie, Simmonds, Peter, Stanley, Samuel, Tapper, Michael L, von Depka, Mario   +11 more
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CSF lactate dehydrogenase activity in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease exceeds that in other dementias [PDF]

, 2004
The diagnosis of Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease (CJD) is still made by exclusion of other dementias. We now evaluated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as a possible additional diagnostic tool. CSF LDH levels of patients with CJD (
Cepek, L., Kretzschmar, H. A., Niedmann, P., Otto, M., Poser, S., Schmidt, H., Schroter, A.   +6 more
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Patients with Prion: Blocking Precautions Epidemiological

Revista de Epidemiologia e Controle de Infecção, 2017
Objective: To present the epidemiological blocking measures carried out in the hospital care of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Methodology: retrospective case series of four patients admitted to a referral hospital in southern Brazil, from June
Liarine Fernandes Bedin, Jaqueline Petittembert Fonseca, Ariane Baptista Monteiro, Luzia Fernandes Millão, Rita Catalina Aquino Caregnato   +4 more
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Proteomic analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [PDF]

, 2007
So far, only the detection of 14-3-3 proteins in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been accepted as diagnostic criterion for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). However, this assay cannot be used for screening because of the high rate of false-positive results,
Brit Mollenhauer, Enrico Klingebiel, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Harrington MG, Harrington MG, Jens Wiltfang, Jiang L, Kretzschmar HA, Lukas Cepek, Markus Otto, McKhann G, Mirko Bibl, Otto M, Peter Brechlin, Petra Steinacker, Rabilloud T, Steinhoff BJ, Will RG, Zerr I, Zheng PP   +19 more
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Creutzfeldt⁃Jakob disease with paraneoplastic neurological syndrome: one case report

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023
Xiu⁃yan ZHONG, Yao⁃ting NIE, Ren⁃yun TANG, Yan LI, Yuan⁃hua WU, Jing CAI   +5 more
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Tau protein, A beta 42 and S-100B protein in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with dementia with Lewy bodies [PDF]

, 2005
The intra vitam diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is still based on clinical grounds. So far no technical investigations have been available to support this diagnosis.
Arai H, Barbara Ciesielczyk, Brit Mollenhauer, Claudia Trenkwalder, Galasko D, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Hansen LA, Hulstaert F, Jens Wiltfang, Kanemaru K, Lukas Cepek, Manuela Neumann, Markus Otto, McKeith I, McKeith IG, McKhann G, Merdes AR, Mirko Bibl, Molina L, Otto M, Parnetti L, Petra Steinacker, Sigrid Poser, Tschampa HJ, Walter J. Schulz-Schaeffer, Watson GS   +25 more
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in a post-COVID-19 patient: did SARS-CoV-2 accelerate the neurodegeneration?

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 2023
Background Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorder, with few months as a usual duration from onset to death. Case presentation In this case report, a patient of Sporadic CJD (sCJD) who presented one month after severe ...
Taha K. Alloush, Adel T. Alloush, Yaser Abdelazeem, Hossam M. Shokri, Khaled O. Abdulghani, Ahmed Elzoghby   +5 more
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Computational Studies of the Structural Stability of Rabbit Prion Protein Compared to Human and Mouse Prion Proteins [PDF]

, 2011
Prion diseases are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases affecting humans and animals. The neurodegenerative diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, Gerstmann-Str$\ddot{a}$ussler ...
Zhang, Jiapu
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PRNP P39L variant is a rare cause of frontotemporal dementia in Iialian population [PDF]

, 2016
The missense P39L variant in the prion protein gene (PRNP) has recently been associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Here, we analyzed the presence of the P39L variant in 761 patients with FTD and 719 controls and found a single carrier among ...
Arcaro, Marina, Arighi, Andrea, Arosio, Beatrice, Benussi, Luisa, Binetti, Giuliano, Bruno, Giuseppe, Bursey, Devan, Cioffi, Sara Mg, Confaloni, Annamaria, Fenoglio, Chiara, Fumagalli, Giorgio G, Galimberti, Daniela, Ghidoni, Roberta, Grande, Giulia, Kauwe, John S, Mari, Daniela, Mariani, Claudio, Nacmias, Benedetta, Oldoni, Emanuela, Pinessi, Lorenzo, Piscopo, Paola, Rainero, Innocenzo, Rubino, Elisa, Scarioni, Marta, Scarpini, Elio, Serpente, Maria, Sorbi, Sandro, Talarico, Giuseppina   +27 more
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