Afonso Mendes, Patrícia and Trigo, Emilia and Rui, Pina and Martins, Paulo and Pimentel, Jorge (2017) Rapidly Progressive Encephalopathy: Initial Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease in an Intensive Care Unit. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 4 (1). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, incurable and fatal condition that can only be confirmed through neuropathological investigation, such as brain biopsy or post-mortem study. However, a probable diagnosis can be made using clinical criteria. CJD manifests as rapidly progressive dementia with myoclonus and to a lesser extent visual impairment and cerebellar and pyramidal/extrapyramidal signs. We report the case of a previously independent adult male that met all the clinical criteria. Taken together, the investigation results suggested probable CJD.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; rapid progressive dementia |
| 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) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2017 17:32 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2017 17:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/16040 |
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