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creutzfeldt–jakob disease

  1. SWAlexander

    Iatrogenic Alzheimer’s disease in recipients of cadaveric pituitary-derived growth hormone

    Excerpt: We previously reported human transmission of Aβ pathology and CAA in relatively young adults who had died of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (iCJD) after childhood treatment with cadaver-derived pituitary growth hormone (c-hGH) contaminated with both CJD prions and Aβ seeds...
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    • bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse) cadaveric pituitary-derived growth hormone creutzfeldt–jakob disease iatrogenic aβ
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  2. SWAlexander

    Rapidly evolving Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in COVID-19: from early status epilepticus to fatal outcome

    Abstract We report the case of a 70-year-old man coming to our attention for new onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) in a rapidly evolving CJD during SARS-CoV-2 co-infection. Our case report describes a fulminant CJD evolution associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, which led to patient...