Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – An Update by John M Conly, Stephen D Shafran

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Infection Control by Lynn Johnston, John Conly

“…Over the past year, several situations have occurred in Canada in which patients who had recently undergone a surgical procedure were subsequently diagnosed with confirmed or suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). This raised concerns over contamination of surgical instruments: which instruments might have been contaminated from direct exposure to tissues; can instruments become cross-contaminated by exposure to other contaminated instruments; what assessment is necessary to determine cross-contamination; and what should be done with instruments that have been contaminated. …”
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting as Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus by Aleksei Rakitin, Riina Vibo, Vaiko Veikat, Anne Õunapuu, Aive Liigant, Sulev Haldre

“…Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare, rapidly progressive spongiform encephalopathy in humans. …”
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease with Mixed Transcortical Aphasia: Insights into Echolalia by S. E. McPherson, J. D. Kuratani, J. L. Cummings, J. Shih, P. S. Mischel, H. V. Vinters

“…Aphasia is a common manifestation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), and investigation of the linguistic disorders of CJD patients may provide insights into the neurobiological mechanisms of language and aphasia. …”
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A systemic analysis of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease cases in Asia by Urwah Rasheed, Sana Khan, Minahil Khalid, Aneeqa Noor, Saima Zafar

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Corrigendum to “A Case of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Presenting as Conversion Disorder” by Nikhil Yegya-Raman, Rehan Aziz, Daniel Schneider, Anthony Tobia, Megan Leitch, Onyi Nwobi

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Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease with early onset myoclonus: A case for fulminant progression by Indira Naskar, Navya, Pooja Sharma, Nishant Goyal

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A Corticobasal Syndrome Variant of Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease with Stroke-Like Onset by Ján Necpál, Martin Stelzer, Silvia Koščová, Michal Patarák

“…Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is an untreatable rare human prion disease characterized by rapidly progressive dementia along with various neurological features, including myoclonus and sometimes other movement disorders. …”
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Causing a 2-Years Slowly Progressive Isolated Dementia by Álvaro Machado, Manuel Ribeiro, Margarida Rodrigues, Carla Ferreira, Inês Baldeiras, M. Helena Ribeiro, Isabel Santana, Rui Almeida, Lígia Castro, Stirling Carpenter

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Multidimensional features of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the elderly: a case report and systematic review by Jiangfeng Liao, Jiangfeng Liao, Wenming Hu, Wenming Hu, Shiheng Chen, Chunyu Huang, Chunyu Huang, Senwei Dong, Senwei Dong, Wanjin Chen, Wanjin Chen, Xiaochun Chen, Longfei Chen, Longfei Chen

Subjects: “…sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease…”
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease as a Cause of Cognitive Decline and Seizures in the Elderly: Diagnostic Pointers and Strategy for Investigation by R. Williams, F. Cresswell, M. McClure, R. Lane

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Corrigendum: Multidimensional features of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the elderly: a case report and systematic review by Jiangfeng Liao, Jiangfeng Liao, Wenming Hu, Wenming Hu, Shiheng Chen, Chunyu Huang, Chunyu Huang, Senwei Dong, Senwei Dong, Wanjin Chen, Wanjin Chen, Xiaochun Chen, Longfei Chen, Longfei Chen

Subjects: “…sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease…”
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Diagnosing Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in a Patient with a Suspected Status Epilepticus in the Intensive Care Unit by Harm J. van der Horn, Peter H. Egbers, Michaël A. Kuiper, Wouter J. Schuiling

“…Several tests are available in the diagnostics of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD); however, none of these is conclusive. …”
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Neurofilament Light Chain Levels in Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid Do Not Correlate with Survival Times in Patients with Prion Disease by Mika Shimamura, Kong Weijie, Toshiaki Nonaka, Koki Kosami, Ryusuke Ae, Koji Fujita, Taiki Matsubayashi, Tadashi Tsukamoto, Nobuo Sanjo, Katsuya Satoh

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Exploring CJD incidence trends: insights from Slovakia by Pavol Skacik, Egon Kurca, Stefan Sivak

Subjects: “…Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease…”
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Unmet needs of biochemical biomarkers for human prion diseases by Peter Hermann, Inga Zerr

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Identification of the Highly Polymorphic Prion Protein Gene (<i>PRNP</i>) in Frogs <i>(Rana dybowskii</i>) by Chang-Su Han, Sae-Young Won, Sang-Hun Park, Yong-Chan Kim

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Genetic assessment of apolipoprotein E polymorphism and PRNP genotypes in rapidly progressive dementias in Pakistan by Urwah Rasheed, Minahil Khalid, Aneeqa Noor, Umar Saeed, Rizwan Uppal, Saima Zafar

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Novel method for classification of prion diseases by detecting PrPres signal patterns from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples by Sachiko Koyama, Kaoru Yagita, Hideomi Hamasaki, Hideko Noguchi, Masahiro Shijo, Kosuke Matsuzono, Kei-Ichiro Takase, Keita Kai, Shin-Ichi Aishima, Kyoko Itoh, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Naokazu Sasagasako, Hiroyuki Honda

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Prion meeting 2023: implications of a growing field by Tiago F. Outeiro, Tuane C. R. G. Vieira

“…The history of human prion diseases began with the original description, by Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and by Alfons Maria Jakob, of patients with a severe brain disease that included speech abnormalities, confusion, and myoclonus, in a disease that was then named Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD). Later, in Papua New Guinea, a disease characterized by trembling was identified, and given the name “Kuru”. …”
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