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Polish Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery 6/2005
abstract:
CASE REPORT Mental disorders in a female patient with probable Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Neurol Neurochirur Pol 2005; 39, 6: 520–523
authors:
Marek Gronkowski,
Bożena Śpila,
Alina Nowicka,
Piotr Machała,
Grzegorz Przywara,
The paper presents an overview of the current knowledge about the etiology, classification of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, abnormalities in the results of the EEG, MR and laboratory examinations in patients with this disease. The diagnostic value of the CSF examination for presence of protein 14-3-3 is underlined. The article is based on both Polish and foreign literature, describing mainly the diagnostics of CJD. The case of a female patient with dementia, mental disorders and neurological symptoms in the course of probable CJD, who was hospitalized at the Psychogeriatric Department of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Lublin is described.
keywords:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, sCJD, laboratory tests
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