Creutzfeldt jakob disease

A rare transmittable degenerative disorder of the brain caused by prions. Morphologically it is characterized by spongiform degeneration of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex. Signs and symptoms include sleep disturbances, personality changes, aphasia, ataxia, muscle atrophy and weakness, visual loss, and myoclonus. It usually leads to death within a year from the onset of the disease.

Disease Alternative Name

creutzfeldt-jacob disease

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Dr. Drrajesh Gupta

Dermatology

#Dementia

Today my topic is on #Dementia #lossofthinking #Memory loss.Most of the peoples are worrying about this I will try to gi...See More

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Dr. Sumit Kumar Vishwakarma

Internal Medicine

autoimmune encephalitis

Rapidly progressive dementia is mostly intractable and irreversible illness characterized by rapid disease progression within 1 year. The most common cause of rapidly progressive dementia was considered to be prion disease Creutzfeldt-Jak...See More

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Ameerun Shaik

MBBS Student

diagnosis? Ankyloglossia Atrophic glossitis Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Hypoglossal nerve palsy Motor neuron dise...See More

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Had an emergency call for 60Y/F Pt. in semi-unconscious state ( no response to surrounding for 10-15 days ) breathlessness & rhonchi on Auscultation. No H/O HTN, DM. K/C/O CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) which is a rare, degenerative, ...See More

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