Medscape1 天
MRI Findings Are Often Missed in the Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...
New test distinguishes between prion disease and other causes of rapidly progressive dementia
Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly ...
Nature3 个月
‘New variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy
The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...