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Illustrating the relevance of updated diagnostic criteria for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a teaching neurocase
Authors
Kamtchum Tatuene, Joseph
Vargas Gomez, Maria Isabel
Burkhardt, Karim
Chofflon, Michel
Published in BMJ Case Reports. 2013, vol. 2013
Abstract A 75-year-old woman with unremarkable medical history, consulted for a 5-month history of involuntary shaking of left upper limb. Clinical examination revealed polyminimyoclonus of the upper limbs with cogwheel-like rigidity, hyperreflexia, bradykinesia, inconstant spastic-like rigidity in the lower limbs and a stiff and cautious gait. These symptoms, together with the memory impairment found on neuropsychological assessment yielded suspicion for a subacute encephalopathy probably due to a non-conventional infectious agent. There was no 14-3-3 protein found in the cerebrospinal fluid and no periodic sharp wave complexes on EEG. These findings made the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) rather unlikely according to the current WHO diagnostic criteria. However, typical isolated cortical hyperintensity of right temporal, parietal and occipital lobes on MRI suggested a probable CJD and prompted cerebral biopsy which confirmed the diagnosis. This article emphasises the need to update the current WHO criteria by including radiological findings.
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PMID: 23986153
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de pathologie et immunologie
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de radiologie et informatique médicale
Research group Métastases du foie (657)
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(ISO format) 		KAMTCHUM TATUENE, Joseph et al. Illustrating the relevance of updated diagnostic criteria for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a teaching neurocase. In: BMJ Case Reports, 2013, vol. 2013. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:33621

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