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Prion Diseases
Tests for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease include: Exams to look for changes in brain functioning and vision. A spinal tap (also called a lumbar puncture) to withdraw a sample of cerebrospinal fluid, the ...
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MRI Findings Are Often Missed in the Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
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 ...
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Diagnostic challenge of rapidly progressing sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Antemortem assessment of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) can be significantly hampered due ... CJD as a potential diagnosis for rapidly progressive dementia. Serology tests, EEG, MRI and CSF ...
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The neuropsychology of variant CJD: a comparative study with inherited and sporadic forms of prion disease
We describe the neuropsychological profiles of 10 cases and compare these data with cross sectional data obtained from patients with histologically confirmed sporadic CJD and cases with inherited ...
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First participant diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the population-based Rotterdam Study was classified with mild cognitive impairment
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by accumulation of abnormally folded prion protein. sCJD can have a long asymptomatic incubation period, ...
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CSF levels of SNAP-25 are increased early in Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Alzheimer’s disease
However, comprehensive studies investigating the marker in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and in the differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases are still lacking. Methods We developed a ...