Espírito Santo, Joana Almeida and Garcia, Rui and Marques dos Santos, Rui and Lemos, João and Santana, Isabel (2015) Psychiatric manifestations of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease simulate depressive disorder with psychotic symptoms. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2 (1). pp. 1-4. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder with a broad spectrum of early clinical manifestations, comprising neurological and psychiatric symptoms. The authors report the case of a patient admitted with a diagnosis of depressive disorder with psychotic symptoms, with post-mortem confirmation of CJD and discuss how CJD’s clinical heterogeneity can lead to misdiagnosis of the disease. Despite CJD’s unique pathogenesis, its kaleidoscopic presentation justifies the integrated investigation of patients with psychiatric symptoms, avoiding restrictive diagnosis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, depressive disorder with psychotic symptoms |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) > 616.8 Malattie del sistema nervoso e disturbi mentali (Classificare qui la Neuropsichiatria, la Neurologia) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2016 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2016 14:37 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/14996 |
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